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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?
(a) Ancient Aztecs.
(b) Ancient Incas.
(c) Ancient Mayans.
(d) Ancient Babylonians.

2. What is the meaning of the term quipu?
(a) An imagined community.
(b) A set of colorful cords used to record mathematical data.
(c) A full script.
(d) A court of law.

3. The Andean World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
(a) Most of Central America and parts of North America.
(b) Only the continent of Australia.
(c) Most of western South America.
(d) Australia and eastern Asia.

4. How much money that exists in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) More than 50 trillion dollars.
(b) More than 10 trillion dollars.
(c) More than 5 trillion dollars.
(d) More than 20 trillion dollars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?

2. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?

3. During the last million years, there has been an Ice Age how frequently, on average?

4. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?

5. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?

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