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1
What invention dramatically increased the availability and spread of knowledge and ideas?
The Plow
The Compass
The Cotton Gin
The Printing Press
2
The interaction that began in 1492 among Europe, Africa and the Americas we call ________?
NAFTA
The Silk Road
The Columbian exchange
Globalization
3
Which of the following DID NOT make human start to farm?
Boredom
Overpopulation - humans migrated across globe
Rivers flooding and depositing silt for fertile soil
Climate Change - end of ice age
4
Which trade route connected Eurasian civilizations to one another?
The Great Wall of China
The Eightfold Path
The Silk Road
The Yellow Brick Road
5
Where did Jared Diamond do his field work that inspired him to write Guns, Germs, & Steel?
Peru
Papua New Guinea
China
Brazil
6
Which of the following was NOT a reason that Eurasian civilizations had trade and exchange?
Eurasia had one single language
East / West Axis of Eurasia
Beasts of Burden
Writing
7
Which civilization invented gunpowder, the compass, and paper?
The Inca
Mesopotamia
China
Egypt
8
What animal helped the spread of ideas, knowledge, and technology in Eurasia?
Elephant
Horse
Llama
Chicken
9
The first cities in the world emerged where?
India
Mesopotamia
China
Mexico
10
Traditionally, which group in society had the most power among the following?
Merchants
Potters
Farmers
Priests
11
Which of the following was indigenous to the Americas?
Sugarcane
Apples
Potatoes
Coffee
12
Which of the following was indigenous to the "Old World"?
Corn
Pigs
Rubber
Turkeys
13
Which conquistador conquered the Inca?
Cortez
Columbus
Pizarro
Da Gama
14
Which was the biggest killer of Indigenous Americans in the 15th century?
Steel
Germs
Guns
Horses
15
Which system of writing was the first ever developed?
Cuneiform
Latin
Mayan script
Hieroglyphics
16
Who is the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel?
Rick Riordan
Howard Zinn
George RR Martin
Jared Diamond
17
Before farming, human beings everywhere did what for food?
Scavenged
Went to the grocery store
Starved
Hunted and gathered
18
Which ancient legal code included the phrase "an eye for an eye"?
Harambe's Code
Houdini's Code
Homer's Code
Hammurabi's Code
19
Hunter gatherers could never have developed specialized labor because _____________
No religion
No food surplus
No Government
Not smart enough
20
Which disease was the worst killer of indigenous Americans?
Tuberculosis
The Plague
Small Pox
The Flu
21
The Inca could never be as productive farmers as Eurasian farmers because they lacked what?
Guns
Cereal grasses
Beasts of Burden (BOBs)
Knowledge of farming
22
Which animal did the Inca domesticate but never use as transportation?
Horse
Llama
Elephant
Camel
23
What is the essential "building block" of civilization?
Television
TikTok
Fishing
Farming
24
Eurasians developed disease immunity because they had______________
Plows
Cereal grasses
modern medicine
domesticated farm animals
25
In what year did the era of Guns, Germs, and Steel begin?
1620
1492
1942
1776