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A-History Review
5th Grade history Review Ch.1-9
Question | Answer |
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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 |