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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The Moriori lived as which of the following?
(a) Farmers
(b) Feudal lords
(c) Hunters and gatherers
(d) Slaves
2. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?
(a) Denser human populations
(b) Increased hunger
(c) Less warfare
(d) Sparser societies
3. One argument that people have made is that what stimulated development in Western Europe?
(a) The absence of germs
(b) The amount of sunlight
(c) The cold climate
(d) The availability of metals
4. Almonds were found in which person's tomb?
(a) Tutankhamen
(b) Jesus
(c) Ulysses S. Grant
(d) Socrates
5. People in areas with a head start on food production gained what?
(a) A resistance to disease
(b) A head start on guns, germs, and steel
(c) Steel production
(d) A head start on hunting and gathering techniques
Short Answer Questions
1. Thirteen of the fourteen large domesticated mammals are native to which area?
2. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?
3. What is one explanation that Diamond gives for why food production didn't begin earlier in some ecologically better areas?
4. Humans developed on what continent?
5. Independent food production began in how many places?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the greater Polynesian area like in terms of the environments available?
2. Fourteen species of large mammals were domesticated. Why weren't other species?
3. How do historical sciences differ from non-historical sciences?
4. What advantages did the Fertile Crescent have in domesticating plants?
5. Why did food production not occur earlier in history?
6. Why does Diamond think inventions occur?
7. Why do some scholars argue that Europeans expanded and conquered others but China did not?
8. How did the Maori and the Moriori differ?
9. Why did Eurasia have an advantage in the domestication of animals?
10. How did the domestication of animals give some societies an advantage?
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