wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Grade 5-10 Social Studies History

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Pyramid shaped temple

a)

Ziggurat

b)

City-state

c)

Code of Hammurabi

d)

Cuneiform

2.

Central city and its surrounding farmland

a)

Ziggurat

b)

City-state

c)

Mesopotamia

d)

Cultural Hearth

3.

First known written laws

a)

Ziggurat

b)

Cuneiform

c)

Code of Hammurabi

d)

Epic of Gilgamesh

4.

Where was the center of the Assyrian Empire?

a)

Egypt

b)

Israel

c)

Northern Mesopotamia

d)

Southern Mesopotamia

5.

What other empire did the Assyrians battle throughout much of ancient history for control of Mesopotamia and the Middle East?

a)

Sumerians

b)

Persians

c)

Egyptians

d)

Babylonians

6.

What Assyrian city held a famous library of thousands of clay tablets?

a)

Babylon

b)

Niveneh

c)

Ashur

d)

Nimrud

7.

The Maya

a)

had a system of writing like hieroglyphics that represented sounds and also had a system for numbers

b)

spoke Nahuatl

c)

spoke Quechua

d)

built chinampas on Lake Texcoco

8.

The Maya had a class system that divided people into different levels of society

a)

True

b)

False

9.

In the Maya culture, priests were

a)

not that important

b)

the second to lowest class of society, above serfs

c)

equal to farmers because there were so many of them

d)

ranked just below the king and revered as equally as warriors

10.

Why would the Maya make sacrifices to their gods?

a)

to please the gods and get a good harvest

b)

to use the temple

c)

to establish the power of their city-state

11.
Where did the Vikings come from?
a)
Ireland
b)
Scandanavia
c)
France
d)
Australia
12.
What country did the Vikings not invade?
a)
Iceland
b)
France
c)
Portugal
d)
Ireland
13.
What were the Vikings clothes made from?
a)
silk
b)
cotton
c)
polyester
d)
wool
14.
What did Vikings use to sail the seas?
a)
live ships
b)
long ships
c)
short ships
d)
narrow ships
15.

Which of the following describes the Han government?

a)

centralized

b)

harsh ruling style

c)

not harsh ruling style

d)

incorporated the ideas of Confucious

16.

All of the following are advancements and/or inventions made in Warfare

a)

kites

b)

fish scale armor

c)

expanded their army

d)

bamboo drills

17.

The invention of paper improved Chinese writing by all of the following except

a)

less expensive

b)

more expensive

c)

absorbed the ink better

d)

easier to bind into a book

18.
god of writing and knowledge
a)
Thoth
b)
Anubis
c)
Horus
d)
Sobek
19.
The god of the dead:
a)
Osiris
b)
Anubis
c)
Ra
d)
Isis
20.
mountain range that is home to the highest mountains in the world
a)
caste
b)
Sanskrit
c)
monsoon
d)
Himalaya
21.

The Aztec Empire lived in central ___________.

a)

Asia

b)

Mexico

c)

Panama

d)

Cuba

22.

Which of the following best describes the Aztec government?

a)

a democracy with a president elected by the commoners

b)

tribal groups with no central government

c)

a collection of city-states, each with its own ruler

d)

an empire united under a single ruler