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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Collision at Cajamarca".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What allowed the Maori to have specialists and warriors as part of their society?
(a) Greater intelligence
(b) A capitalist society
(c) Stored crop surpluses
(d) Weapons

2. The Moriori lived as which of the following?
(a) Farmers
(b) Hunters and gatherers
(c) Slaves
(d) Feudal lords

3. What advantage did horses provide?
(a) They were used as weapons
(b) More packing room
(c) Greater manueverability
(d) They pulled the weapons faster than humans

4. Where did things like agriculture and writing develop?
(a) Warm climates
(b) The Arctic Circle
(c) North America
(d) Western Europe

5. The Maori had what type of population?
(a) Decreasing
(b) Sparse
(c) Controlled
(d) Locally dense

Short Answer Questions

1. Humans developed on what continent?

2. When did the history of humans begin?

3. What influenced life in the island societies of Polynesia?

4. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?

5. When were the Polynesian islands settled?

(see the answer key)

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