5th Grade history Review Ch.1-9
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| The study of the earth's surface | geography
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| Which continents make up the Old World? | Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and Antartica
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| What marks the beginning of human history? | the creation of Adam and Eve
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| What does B.C. mean? | Before Christ
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| What gives the only true and reasonable record of our beginnings? | the Bible
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| What event divides time between B.C. and A.D.? | the birth of Christ
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| What is evolution? | the false belief that man began as an animal
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| What were the Babylonians known for? | Hanging Gardens
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| Which nation had no great accomplishments? | Canaanites
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| Which nation was known as early empire builders? | Hittites
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| Which nation made the world's first coins? | Lydians
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| What was the Phoenicians' most valuable contribution to the world? | alphabet
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| Who was the most famous citizen of Ur? | Abraham
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| What is the wedge-shaped writing used by the Sumerians called? | cuneiform
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| What language is spoken by most people in the Middle East today? | Arabic
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| What is the most important natural resource in the Middle East today? | oil
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| Persia was once called... | Iran
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| What is reincarnation? | the belief that when a person dies his soul is reborn in some other newborn man or animal
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| Where did the Indian civilization begin? | Indus River Valley
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| Name the largest country in Africa. | Sudan
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| the world's largest swamp | Sudd
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| structure built to control flooding of the Nile | Aswan High Dam
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| waterway that separates Africa and Asia | Suez Canal
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| The largest freshwater lake in the world | Lake Victoria
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| the largest city in the Africa | Cairo
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| Where is the Serengeti National Park located? | Tanzania
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| body of water that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean | Starit of Gibraltar
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| the two African countries that were never colonies of Europe | Liberia and Ethiopia
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| What are Pygmies? | short descendants of the original inhabitants of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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| Why is the Rosetta Stone important? | it was the key to understanding hieroglyphics
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| What device did the Egyptians use to irrigate crops? | shadoof
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| "Land of the Rising Sun" | Japan
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| "Spice Islands" | Indonesia
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| famous center of learning in Africa | Timbuktu
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| Africa's highest mountain | Mt. Kilimanjaro
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| fourth largest island in the world | Madagascar
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| location of the Barbary Coast | Mediterranean Sea
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| Capital of Egypt | Cairo
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| capital of Sudan | Khartoum
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| capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kinshasa
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| capital of Ethiopia | Addis Ababa
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| capital of Kenya | Nairobi
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| capital of South Africa | Cape Town
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| capital of Tanzania | Dar es Salaam
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| leader of Chinese Communists | Mao Tse-Tung
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| only woman pharoah of Ancient Egypt | Hatshepsut
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| the "Father of Faith Missions" | Hudson Taylor
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| first known African Christian | Ethiopian eunuch
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| Queen of the Cannibals | Mary Slessor
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| greatest missionary explorer to Africa | David Livingstone
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| Father of American Missions | Adoniram Judson
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| first Egyptian leader to make peace with Israel | Anwar Sudat
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| first black president of South Africa | Nelson Mandela
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| righteous Batswana chief | Khama
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| capital of China | Brijing
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| capital of India | New Delhi
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| capital of Iraq | Baghdad
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| capital of Israel | Jerusalem
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| capital of Japan | Tokyo
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| capital of South Korea | Seoul
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| capital of Syria | Damascus
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| capital of Taiwan | Taipei
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| capital of Thailand | Bangkok
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| capital of Turkey | Ankara
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