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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the transition to food production not happen earlier?

2. Food production meant what to hunting and gathering societies?

3. People in the Fertile Crescent began food production around what time?

4. The Giant Leap Forward occurred when?

5. When did the history of humans begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some areas where food production didn't develop early on but the environment is ecologically suited to food production?

2. What misconceptions exist about the transition from hunter-gatherers to food producers?

3. How is climate used as an explanation for the uneven distribution of wealth and power?

4. Why do some scholars argue that Europeans expanded and conquered others but China did not?

5. Where did food production develop independently?

6. Why were Europeans able to conquer Africans according to Diamond?

7. Why did food production not occur earlier in history?

8. Why was a north-south axis a disadvantage in the domestication of plants?

9. What happened in the encounter between the Incas and the Spanish?

10. How do inventions spread between societies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why weren't Native Americans, Africans, and Aboriginal Australians the ones who conquered and killed Europeans and Asians? What factors lead to these groups being on the losing end rather than the winning one?

Essay Topic 2

How did food production affect societies? What advantages did societies that had food production gain over societies that didn't?

Essay Topic 3

Why did the societies in New Guinea and Australia develop at different times? What differences were present between these areas?

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