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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue "The Future of Human History as a Science".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did technology grow the fastest according to Diamond?
(a) In nomadic societies
(b) In isolated areas with small populations
(c) In areas where food production was just beginning
(d) In large productive regions with large human populations

2. In what types of societies did writing first emerge?
(a) Capitalist societies
(b) Hunter-gatherers
(c) Places where food production arose
(d) Places were science was a major focus

3. Some people argue that examining domination leads to what type of focus?
(a) Historical
(b) Asiatic
(c) Eurocentric
(d) Cultural

4. What is not a cause in the uneven distribution of wealth and power, according to Diamond?
(a) The intelligence of groups
(b) The relative isolation of people
(c) The orientation of a continent on a particular axis
(d) Differences in wild plant distribution

5. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?
(a) Only raised cultivated crops
(b) Collected wild food and raised cultivated ones
(c) Raised mainly cultivated crops
(d) Spent more time hunting than growing crops

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What foods did people in the Americas depend on?

3. Where did the Maori live?

4. According to Diamond, why are the societies of Asia and the Pacific important?

5. If knowledge brings power, what increases the power, according to Diamond?

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