Worksheets245 American History Ch 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A business in which a group of people invest together
a)
merchantilism
b)
Joint-stock company
c)
Crusades
2.
North American Native Americans were matrilineal, which means the inherited their last name from their
a)
Chief
b)
Father
c)
Mother
3.
This group was the first know society in the New World
a)
Olmec
b)
Aztec
c)
Incas
4.
How do scientists believe people first arrived in North America?
a)
in small boats
b)
on the Bering Strait bridge
c)
swimming the Bering Strait
5.
This early American group began as small villages in Peru, South America.
a)
Olmec
b)
Aztec
c)
Incas
6.
This early American group was feared because of its warriors and sacrificing prisoners of war by cutting their hearts out.
a)
Olmec
b)
Aztec
c)
Incas
7.
During the Renaissance, or Rebirth, the new emphasis was a search for
a)
God
b)
Gold
c)
Knowledge
8.
Pueblos were aboveground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe
a)
True
b)
False
9.
A group's set of common values and traditions is know as
a)
environment
b)
culture
c)
religion
10.
Mali's ______________ and Songhai's Askia the Great were both Muslims.
a)
Mansa Musa
b)
Tenochtitlan
c)
Berber
11.
In the mid-1400's, ______________________ developed a printing press that used movable type
a)
Johannes Gutenberg
b)
Roger Bacon
c)
King John
12.
In the Middle Ages, nobles exchanged land for military service with _________________________, or warriors who fought on horseback.
a)
Franks
b)
Knights
c)
Crones
13.
The trade between Africa and Europe began as trading gold with this
a)
Oregeno
b)
Salt
c)
Pepper
14.
The Olmec and Maya Civilizations were both in Meso-America
a)
True
b)
False
15.
The people who migrated across the Bering Land Bridge were hunter-gatherers.
a)
True
b)
False
16.
Mansa Must shared the importance of education on his.
a)
Hajj to Mecca
b)
Voyages to Spain
c)
Voyage to Italy
17.
Images of ancestors or animals often carved onto tall poles by native American tribes of the pacific northwest
a)
Totems
b)
Kivas
c)
Mounds
18.
This group was the first in Africa to begin trade routes through West Africa
a)
Berbers
b)
Mayans
c)
Sachems
19.
The disease that spread throughout Europe and Asia that killed 25 million people, about1/3 of the population of the world
a)
Red Death
b)
Tuberculosis
c)
Black Death
20.
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle believed in using clear or ordered thinking for a society.
a)
True
b)
False
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