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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. Animals are said to belong to the same species if they are able to take what action?
(a) They are able to produce fertile offspring.
(b) They share the same DNA traits.
(c) They are physically able to mate.
(d) They are able to communicate with one another.

2. By 1450 AD, what percentage of earth's inhabitants lived within a "single mega-world" (167)?
(a) 30 percent.
(b) 75 percent.
(c) 60 percent.
(d) 90 percent.

3. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?
(a) Cowry shells.
(b) Colorful threads.
(c) Wampum.
(d) Beads.

4. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?
(a) 700 BC.
(b) 3500 BC.
(c) 200 BC.
(d) 1200 BC.

5. The first coins in history were created around what year?
(a) 640 BC.
(b) 240 BC.
(c) 1139 BC.
(d) 120 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?

2. In a band of 50 individuals, Harari states that there are how many one-on-one relationships?

3. What does Harari NOT provide as an example of an imagined order?

4. The Mesoamerican World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

5. What term does Harari define as "a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order" (209)?

(see the answer key)

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