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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. Where did the Maori live?

2. When were the Polynesian islands settled?

3. What advantage did horses provide?

4. What axis is most conducive to the spread of food production?

5. Some people argue that examining domination leads to what type of focus?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four stages in how diseases are transferred from animals to humans?

2. How do inventions spread between societies?

3. What does Diamond argue determined when a group would adopt food production?

4. What are several stages in the development of plant domestication? Which plants were domesticated in each stage?

5. Where did writing develop and what was it like?

6. How did the ability to use domesticated plants and animals differentiate the Polynesian societies?

7. Why does Diamond believe that China was once more diverse than it is now?

8. Where does Diamond say more research needs to be done?

9. How do historical sciences differ from non-historical sciences?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What advantages did writing give a society? What was early writing typically used for? Using an example, show how writing gave one society an advantage over another.

Essay Topic 2

What are the advantages that the Fertile Crescent has that allowed it to be the one of the earliest sites of development? How do these advantages relate to Europe's advantages?

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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