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