CHAPTER 3: Collision at Cajamarca
1. Who are Atahualpa and Pizzarro and why was their meeting significant?
2. Explain the variety of reasons why Pizzarro’s small force defeated Atahualpa’s empire.
CHAPTER 4: Farmer Power
3. What is the difference between “food production” and “food collection?”
4. Why was food production a “prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel?”
5. What was the link between food production and the acceleration (gradual) of world population
growth?
6. How did food production lead to Spanish advantages over the Inca?
7. List the various things that domestic animals are good for.
8. Interpret the meaning of Figure 4.1 on page 87.
CHAPTER 5: History’s Haves and Have-Nots
9. What are the central questions this chapter poses?
10. What are some of the problems with dating archaeological evidence of early farming?
11. What are the 5 areas of independent domestication of plants (food production)?
12. What are the 4 areas that are possible sites of independent domestication of plants?
13. What are “founder crops?”
14. What 3-4 other areas received “founder packages” from Southwest Asia?