Guess the Empire
Authored by DOUGLAS Sheldon
History
9th Grade
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This quiz focuses on world history empires and civilizations, specifically examining major political entities and cultural developments from ancient times through approximately 1000 CE. Designed for 9th grade students, the assessment requires knowledge of geographical boundaries, territorial extent, and visual recognition of empire maps, along with understanding key historical developments including trade routes, political collapse, technological innovations, and cultural characteristics. Students must demonstrate mastery of empire identification through map analysis, factual recall about specific civilizations including the Roman, Mongol, Tang Chinese, Byzantine, Islamic Umayyad, and various African and Mesoamerican empires, and comprehension of interconnected historical processes such as trade networks and technological diffusion. The questions demand both visual-spatial skills for map interpretation and conceptual understanding of how empires rose, expanded, and influenced global development patterns. Created by Douglas Sheldon, a History teacher in the US who teaches grade 9. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for formative assessment, allowing teachers to gauge student recognition of major world empires and their historical significance. The visual map-based questions make it particularly effective as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before deeper empire studies, or as review material following units on ancient and medieval civilizations. Teachers can utilize this assessment for homework assignments that reinforce map skills and factual knowledge, or incorporate it into stations-based learning where students rotate through different empire identification challenges. The quiz aligns with NCSS.D2.His.1.9-12 and NCSS.D2.His.3.9-12 standards, requiring students to evaluate historical interpretations and focus inquiry to facilitate understanding of how major empires shaped global interactions and cultural exchange patterns that continue to influence our modern world.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is this empire?
Mongol Empire
Byzantine Empire
Tang China Dynasty
West African Kingdoms
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is this empire
Mongol Empire
Gupta Empire India
Roman Empire
West African Kingdoms
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What empire is this?
Roman Empire
Mongol Empire
Tang China Dynasty
West African Kingdoms
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What Empire is this?
Tang China Dynasty
West African Kingdoms
Islamic Ummayad Empire
Mesoamerican
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What empire is this?
Mongol
West African Kingdoms
Mesoamerica
Tang China Dynasty
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What empire is this?
Mesoamerica
Russian Empire
Tang China Dynasty
West African Kingdoms
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which empire is this?
British Empire
Russian Empire
Kingdoms of West Africa
Mesoamerica
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