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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 "History's Haves and Have-Nots".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?
(a) A capitalist society
(b) The ability to store food
(c) Large populations
(d) The ability to conquer other groups

2. When did independent food production begin?
(a) 5,000 to 4,000 B.C.
(b) 10,000 to 9000 B.C.
(c) 8500 to 8000 B.C.
(d) 2,000 to 100 B.C.

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

4. What occurred between the Incas and Spanish forces?
(a) Many of the Spanish died from influenza
(b) The Incas killed all the Spanish soldiers
(c) The Spanish conquered and enslaved the Incas
(d) The Incas fled to Peru

5. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?
(a) The development of stone tools
(b) The disappearance of human ancestors
(c) The development of ocean going crafts
(d) The mass extinction of large mammals

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?

2. Which of the following is not an area very suitable for food production?

3. People often assume that there are what type of differences between people living on different continents?

4. Independent food production began in how many places?

5. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?

(see the answer key)

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