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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 18-20 and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?
(a) Over three million.
(b) Over six million.
(c) Over one million.
(d) Over three million.

2. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Superior people.
(c) Gods.
(d) Commoners.

3. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?
(a) The Ming dynasty.
(b) The Qin dynasty.
(c) The Shang dynasty.
(d) The Sui dynasty.

4. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?
(a) Progress.
(b) Reason.
(c) Logic.
(d) Religion.

5. Which revolution took place in 1848?
(a) The Scientific Revolution.
(b) The Russian Revolution.
(c) The Cognitive Revolution.
(d) The liberal revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which name of a god is NOT listed among the leading deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon?

2. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?

3. The combined mass of "all surviving large wild animals is less than" (350) how many tons?

4. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?

5. In what century was there an extreme drop in the rates of child mortality?

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