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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Around what year did global warming melt the glaciers blocking the way from Alaska to the rest of America?
(a) 6,000 BC.
(b) 12,000 BC.
(c) 36,000 BC.
(d) 24,000 BC.

2. What does Harari describe as "insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment"?
(a) Prehistoric humans.
(b) Woolly Mammoths.
(c) Troglodytes.
(d) Homo sapiens.

3. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?
(a) Northern Mesopotamia.
(b) Northern Rome.
(c) Southern Mesopotamia.
(d) Eastern Greece.

4. 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) Wampum.
(c) Colorful threads.
(d) Beads.

5. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.
(b) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of health.
(c) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.
(d) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in quarantined conditions for too long.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Sapiens populated East Africa how long ago?

3. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?

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

5. Species that have evolved from a common ancestor are grouped together under what heading?

(see the answer key)

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