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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16 "How China Became Chinese".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Independent food production appears to have begun where?
(a) Siberia
(b) The Fertile Crescent
(c) South America
(d) The eastern edge of Canada

2. The arrival of founder crops enabled local populations to become what?
(a) Sedentary
(b) Rich
(c) Obese
(d) Nomadic

3. The axis of a continent does not affect the spread of what?
(a) Crops
(b) Animals
(c) Esteem
(d) Technologies

4. What animal was domesticated in southwest Asia?
(a) Sheep
(b) None
(c) Pig
(d) Llama

5. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?
(a) Different climates
(b) Similar climates
(c) Areas of farmland
(d) The domestication of animals

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Native American hunting and gathering societies become farmers?

2. How do archeologists date food production?

3. Diamond looks at what type of conflict in China?

4. Crops that began food production in an area are known as what?

5. Why were domesticated plants able to spread from the Fertile Crescent to nearby areas more easily?

(see the answer key)

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