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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what culture did the myth of Gilgamesh spring?
(a) The Incas.
(b) The Babylonians.
(c) The Aztecs.
(d) The ancient Sumer.

2. The Aztec Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?
(a) Greece.
(b) Peru.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Mexico.

3. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) 40.
(b) 90.
(c) 50.
(d) 75.

4. Harari states that "Today anyone with" what kind of income "can safely and easily circumnavigate the globe" (248)?
(a) A middle-class income.
(b) A white collar income.
(c) A fixed income.
(d) An upper-class income.

5. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways" (250), Harari states that one quality of modern science is "its centrality of observation" (251) and its centrality of what other element?
(a) Survival.
(b) Logic.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Mathematics.

6. How many years did the journey take when Magellan circumnavigated the earth for the first time?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

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

8. If 100 commodities are traded in the market, how many different exchange rates do buyers and sellers have to know?
(a) 9,450.
(b) 9,540.
(c) 4,950.
(d) 5,094.

9. What causes a particular science to be designated as an exact science?
(a) Its body of proofs and laws.
(b) Its focus on biology.
(c) Its focus on the laws of physics.
(d) Its use of mathematical tools.

10. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?
(a) 1519.
(b) 1592.
(c) 1498.
(d) 1501.

11. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?
(a) The Aztec world.
(b) The Mesoamerican world.
(c) The Andean world.
(d) The Afro-Asian world.

12. Harari asserts that the last 500 years have demonstrated an "unprecedented growth in human" (248) what?
(a) Power.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Medicine.

13. What is hubris?
(a) A system of agricultural processes.
(b) Human ingenuity.
(c) Humor.
(d) An unreasonable and blasphemous show of confidence.

14. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1602.
(c) 1522.
(d) 1620.

15. Empires are noted as "one of the main reasons for the drastic reduction in" (190) what?
(a) The number of religions practiced.
(b) Human diversity.
(c) Material wealth.
(d) Peaceful conditions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?

2. Harari states that money is based on what two universal principles?

3. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?

4. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?

5. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?

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