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Empires

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the ritual suicide of samurai

a)

Kamikaze

b)

Seppuku

c)

Hara-Kiri

d)

Bushido

2.

Which was the mongol dynasty

a)

Yuan

b)

Quin

c)

Ming

d)

Tang

3.

What did africa trade the most?

a)

Salt and pepper

b)

Salt and gold

c)

silver and gold

d)

silver and pepper

4.

Which group caused Romes downfall

a)

barbarians

b)

greeks

c)

persians

d)

celts

5.

A person who reduced punishments for breaking the law

a)

magistrate

b)

warlord

c)

scholar official

d)

advocate

6.

the vikings wore horned helmets

a)

true

b)

false

7.

Which is the correct order of the Japanese social pyramid from least to most powerful

a)

Peasant, Shogun, Samurai Daimyo

b)

Peasant, Samurai, Daimyo, Shogun

c)

Samurai, Daimyo, Shogun, Peasant

d)

Shogun, Daimyo, Samurai, Peasant

8.

What is an Archipelago

a)

A group of Islands

b)

A type of mountain range

c)

A type of ocean current

d)

A type of desert

9.

What would make it hard to travel through the Sahara desert?

a)

extreme cold

b)

lack of water

c)

extreme heat

d)

too much rainfall

10.
Griots were the ___________ of West Africa?
a)
leaders
b)
soldiers 
c)
story tellers
d)
children
11.
Who was a great West African leader of Mali?
a)
Sundiata Keita
b)
Pharaoh Ramsey
c)
Shaka Zulu
d)
Mansa Musa
12.

What is monotheistic

a)

believing in one god

b)

Believing in multiple gods

c)

Believing in a higher power

d)

Believing in fate

13.

What were three aspects (parts) of the Mali Empire's economy? (choose three)

a)

Taxes

b)

Trade

c)

Natural resources

d)

Money laundering

e)

Architecture

14.

What are two ways that the government of the Songhai

Empire is similar to our government?

a)

It was made up of states

b)

It had a Declaration of Independence

c)

It had officials like mayors and governors

d)

It required travelers to apply for a Visa to stay over six months

15.

How was the Black Death first spread?

a)

Merchant seals

b)

Merchant sailors

c)

Merchant caravans

d)

The crusades

16.
These people told the history and folktales of Africa before they began writing it down. 
a)
Griots
b)
Prophets
c)
Diviners
d)

Sundiata

17.

World's largest desert in Northern Africa

a)

Sahara

b)

Sahel

c)

Gobi

d)

Rub Al Kahli

18.

What was the main reason Ghana profited from the trade industry?

a)
They charged traders taxes to pass through. 
b)

They took half of the goods being traded. 

c)

They were the oness doing all the trading, so it was 100% profit

d)
They did not permit trade.
19.

Why were the Medici family important?

a)

They created the kingdom of Songhay and established a tax system

b)

The were patrons to some of the most talented artists of the Renaissance

c)

They were some of the most talented artists of the Renaissance

d)

They called for the crusades of the Middle Ages

20.

What was the name of the road that traders would use to get across the desert to trade with West African empires?

a)

Trans-Continental railroad

b)

The Silk Road

c)

The Trans-Saharan Caravan road

d)

The Suez Canal