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HISTORICAL EVENTS 8TH SB 15

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Taj Mahal is a beautiful white building in India. It's ___________ took 16 years.

a)

construction

b)

discovery

c)

trade

d)

exploration

2.

Jan Evangelista Purkinje made the important _____________ that everybody's fingerprints are different in 1823.

a)

construction

b)

discovery

c)

trade

d)

exploration

3.

In the Middle AGes the Italians had a ________ exchange of metal and oil for paper from Egypt.

a)

construction

b)

discovery

c)

trade

d)

exploration

4.

The first moon landing was in 1969. What will the future of space ________ be?

a)

construction

b)

discovery

c)

trade

d)

exploration

5.

Millions of people died in the flu in 1918. The disease ________ very fast.

a)

spread

b)

development

c)

war

d)

founding

6.

Before the ___________of more complex forms of wheeled transportatio and roads people used to walk and ride horses on paths.

a)

spread

b)

development

c)

war

d)

founding

7.

Countries sometimes go to ______ when they fight over land, religion and resources.

a)

spread

b)

development

c)

war

d)

founding

8.

Since it's _______ in 1946, Unicef has helped millions of children worldwide.

a)

spread

b)

development

c)

war

d)

founding

9.

Robert NOyce was an electrical engineer whose most famous ______ was the microchip.

a)

invention

b)

peace

c)

trade

d)

war

10.

US president Abraham Lincoln was against slavery and slave _______.

a)

invention

b)

peace

c)

trade

d)

war

11.

Albert Einstein was a famous physicist but he also campaigned against fighting and ________

a)

invention

b)

peace

c)

trade

d)

war

12.

There is fighting among countries; but some people believe world ___________ is possible.

a)

invention

b)

peace

c)

trade

d)

war

13.

Polish scientist Marie Curie was behind the _________ of hospital x-rays.

a)

war

b)

peace

c)

trade

d)

development

14.

Mahadma Ghandi was the leader for Indian Independence. He believed in nonviolence and ________.

a)

war

b)

peace

c)

trade

d)

development

15.

Rosalind Franklin was a british chemist. She contrubuted to the ________ of the structure of DNA:

a)

war

b)

peace

c)

discovery

d)

development