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SS Unit 1

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

the study of the past

a)

history

b)

historian

c)

primary source

d)

secondary source

2.

a person who studies the past

a)

history

b)

historian

c)

primary source

d)

secondary source

3.

records made by people who saw or took place in an event

a)

century

b)

chronological order

c)

secondary source

d)

primary source

4.

records written by someone who was not there at the time of the event

a)

primary source

b)

chronological order

c)

secondary source

d)

century

5.

in time sequence

a)

chronological order

b)

effect

c)

cause

d)

century

6.

how a person looks at a problem or event

a)

cause

b)

perspective

c)

effect

d)

century

7.

an action that makes something else happen

a)

region

b)

effect

c)

culture

d)

cause

8.

an area that has one or more common features

a)

region

b)

cause

c)

effect

d)

point of view

9.

something that results from something else happening

a)

cause

b)

effect

c)

culture

d)

region

10.

the way of life for a group of people

a)

empire

b)

oral history

c)

culture

d)

archeology

11.

nations take over and ruled by ONE leader; Ghana, Mali and Songhay are examples

a)

culture

b)

empire

c)

oral history

d)

archeology

12.

history that is passed along by speaking and not written down

a)

profit

b)

Vikings

c)

artifacts

d)

oral history

13.

the study of objects from the past

a)

profit

b)

Vikings

c)

artifacts

d)

archeology

14.

things from the past that are left for us to study

a)

archeology

b)

Vikings

c)

artifacts

d)

profit

15.

a group of explorers that sailed to North America 500 years before Columbus

a)

Vikings

b)

profit

c)

technology

d)

astrolabe

16.

the money that is left after you subtract the cost of running a business

a)

Vikings

b)

profit

c)

technology

d)

astrolabe

17.

the use of knowledge, skills and tools

a)

exchange

b)

encounter

c)

astrolabe

d)

technology

18.

an early tool used to determine how far north or south of the equator a ship was

a)

astrolabe

b)

encounter

c)

slavery

d)

exchange

19.

a meeting between two people or groups

a)

The Columbian Exchange

b)

slavery

c)

exchange

d)

encounter

20.

trading of objects or ideas

a)

Then Columbian Exchange

b)

slavery

c)

exchange

d)

Old World

21.

a system that forced people to work and treated enslaved people as property

a)

slavery

b)

Old World

c)

New World

d)

The Columbian Exchange

22.

the trading of plants, animals, diseases and ideas between the "New World" and the "Old World".

a)

exchange

b)

The Columbian Exchange

c)

slavery

d)

New World

23.

Europe

a)

New World

b)

Old World

c)

Desert Southwest Indians

d)

Pacific Northwest Indians

24.

North and South America

a)

Old World

b)

New World

c)

Desert Southwest Indians

d)

Pacific Northwest Indians

25.

made houses made from mud called adobes

a)

Eastern Woodland Indians

b)

Great Plains Indians

c)

Pacific Northwest Indians

d)

Desert Southwest Indians

26.

used water sources as a main source to find food

a)

Eastern Woodland Indians

b)

Great Plains Indians

c)

Desert Southwest Indians

d)

Pacific Northwest Indians

27.

Created a type of government called a confederation.

a)

Eastern Woodland Indians

b)

Pacific Northwest Indians

c)

Desert Southwest Indians

d)

Great Plain Indians

28.

hunted buffalo for food

a)

Eastern Woodlands Indians

b)

Pacific Northwest Indians

c)

Desert Southwest Indians

d)

Great Plains Indians

29.

looking for shorter trade route, new land, resources, gold

a)

Africa, Americas, and Europe

b)

effects of the 3 worlds coming together

c)

reasons why people started exploring in the late 1400s

d)

Christopher Columbus

30.

the 3 worlds

a)

Antarctica, Americas, Europe

b)

North America, South America, Central America

c)

Asia, Europe, Africa

d)

Africa, Americas, Europe

31.
  • when people make changes in order to fit their environment

a)

adapting to the natural environment

b)

modifying the natural environment

c)

misconception

d)

exploration

32.

Some effects of the 3 Worlds coming together were...

a)

slavery, diseases spread, Natives lost land, Europeans gained land, Columbian Exchange

b)

Native population increases, European population decreased

c)

Africans wanted to come to the New World and Indigenous People wanted to go to Europe

d)

Asians wanted to be part of the 3 Worlds, people started moving to Asia

33.

This group of people had been living in North America for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived

a)

Native Americans

b)

Asians

c)

Europeans

d)

Africans

34.

a wrong or inaccurate idea

a)

adapt

b)

griot

c)

misconception

d)

exchange

35.

allowed each of the Haudenosaunee's five nations to send representatives to the great council

a)

modify

b)

diseases

c)

exchange

d)

The Great Law of Peace

36.

the process of taking over a place and controlling it for your own use

a)

encounter

b)

colonize

c)

adapt

d)

modify