5th Grade - HISTORY -Chapters 1-9

Question 1

What nation is the known for the Hanging Gardens?

Answer 1

Babylonians

Question 2

What nation is recognized as having had no great accomplishments?

Answer 2

Canaanites

Question 3

Who were the early empire builders?

Answer 3

Hittites

Question 4

What nation minted (or made) the world’s first coins?

Answer 4

Lydians

Question 5

What nation developed an alphabet that was their most valuable contribution to the world?

Answer 5

Phoenicians

Question 6

Inventions of this nation included writing and the wheel?

Answer 6

Sumerians

Question 7

The Middle East’s most important natural resource today is?

Answer 7

oil

Question 8

This event divided time into B.C. and A.D.?

Answer 8

Chist’s coming to earth

Question 9

This country was once called Persia?

Answer 9

Iran

Question 10

What is the false idea that man began as an animal?

Answer 10

evolution

Question 11

The Sumerian wedge shaped writing is called?

Answer 11

cuneiform

Question 12

Indian civilization began in which river valley?

Answer 12

Indus

Question 13

Who did God call out of Ur and was promised the land of Canaan?

Answer 13

Abraham

Question 14

What language do most of the people in the Middle East speak today?

Answer 14

Arabic

Question 15

The belief that a person’s soul is reborn into some other newborn man or animal is called?

Answer 15

reincarnation

Question 16

What religion did not begin in the Middle East?

Answer 16

Hinduism

Question 17

What is the largest country in Africa?

Answer 17

Algeria

Question 18

What body of the water connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer 18

Strait of Gibraltar

Question 19

What vast marshy area between the White Nile and the Blue is the world’s largest swamp?

Answer 19

Sudd

Question 20

What are the short descendants of the Diplomatic Republic of Congo that still roam the forest?

Answer 20

Pygmies

Question 21

Where is the Serengeti National Park located?

Answer 21

Tanzania

Question 22

What is the second largest fresh water lake in the world?

Answer 22

Lake Victoria

Question 23

What scultpure was built to control the annual flood waters of the Nile?

Answer 23

Aswan High Dam

Question 24

What is the largest city in Africa?

Answer 24

Cairo

Question 25

What two African countries remain independent and never became colonies of Europe?

Answer 25

Liberia and Ethiopia

Question 26

What waterway divides the continents of Africa and Asia?

Answer 26

Suez Canal

Question 27

Who was the first known African Christian?

Answer 27

Ethiopian eunuch

Question 28

Who was the only woman pharaoh of ancient Egypt?

Answer 28

Hatshepsut

Question 29

Who was the "Father of American Missions?"

Answer 29

Adoniram Judson

Question 30

Who was the righteous Botswana chief?

Answer 30

Khama

Question 31

Who was the greatest missionary and explorer to Africa?

Answer 31

David Livingstone

Question 32

Who was the first black president of South Africa?

Answer 32

Nelson Mandala

Question 33

Who was the "Father of Faith Missions?"

Answer 33

Hudson Taylor

Question 34

Who was the leader of Chinese communists?

Answer 34

Mao Tse-tung

Question 35

Who was the first Egyptian leader to make peace with Israel?

Answer 35

Anwar Sadat

Question 36

What was the key in helping us to understand hieroglyphics?

Answer 36

The Rosetta Stone

Question 37

What country is known as the "Land of the Rising Sun?"

Answer 37

Japan

Question 38

What city in Africa was a famous center of learning?

Answer 38

Timbuktu

Question 39

What country was once known to westerners as the Spice Islands?

Answer 39

Indonesia

Question 40

What device was used by the Egyptians to irrigate crops?

Answer 40

shadoof

Question 41

What is something that Africa is not in need of today?

Answer 41

natural resources

Question 42

What is Africa's highest mountain?

Answer 42

Mount Kilimanjaro

Question 43

What Barbary Coast is known for the pirates that live in what location?

Answer 43

Mediterranean Sea

Question 44

The fourth largest island in the world is?

Answer 44

Madagascar

Question 45

What is the capital of Egypt?

Answer 45

Cairo

Question 46

What is the capital of Kenya?

Answer 46

Nairobi

Question 47

What is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

Answer 47

Kinshasa

Question 48

What is the capital of Tanzania?

Answer 48

Dar es Salaam

Question 49

What is the capital of Sudan?

Answer 49

Khartoum

Question 50

What is the one of the capitals of South Africa?

Answer 50

Cape Town

Question 51

What is the capital of Ethiopia?

Answer 51

Addis Ababa

Question 52

What ist he capital of Turkey?

Answer 52

Ankara

Question 53

What is the capital of Iraq?

Answer 53

Baghdad

Question 54

What is the capital of Thailand?

Answer 54

Bangkok

Question 55

What is the capital of China?

Answer 55

Beijing

Question 56

What is the capital of Syria?

Answer 56

Damascus

Question 57

What is the capital of India?

Answer 57

New Delhi

Question 58

What is the capital of Taiwan?

Answer 58

Taipei

Question 59

What is the capital of Japan?

Answer 59

Tokyo

Question 60

What is the capital of Israel?

Answer 60

Jerusalem

Question 61

What is the capital of South Korea?

Answer 61

Seoul