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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?
(a) 9,000 BC.
(b) 3,500 BC.
(c) 1,000 BC.
(d) 5,000 BC.

2. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?
(a) South America.
(b) Africa.
(c) The Middle East.
(d) Australia.

3. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?
(a) 10,000 years.
(b) 2,000 years.
(c) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(d) Tens of thousands of years.

4. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?
(a) Between 70,000 and 30,000 years ago.
(b) Between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago.
(c) Between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago.
(d) Between 100,000 and 20,000 years ago.

5. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?
(a) 40,000 years ago.
(b) 10,000 years ago.
(c) 70,000 years ago.
(d) 20,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?

2. What does Harari NOT list as a factor that prevents "people from realising that the order organising our lives exists only in their imagination" (112)?

3. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?

4. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?

5. Before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about how many nomadic foragers?

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