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Social Studies
7th Grade
12/11/2012

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Term

true or False?

 

1. When Ponce de Leon went to Florida,he became the first Spaniard to step foot in what is now the United States.

Definition
True
Term

True or False?

2. When the Inca people paid Pizarro a ransom for teir leader,Pizarro released him.

Definition
False
Term

True or False?

3. King Charles 1 opposed England's puritan movement.

Definition
True
Term

True or flalse?

4. Salem minister Roger Williams belived the Puritans should split entirely from the church of England.

Definition
True
Term

True or False?

5. Anne Hutchinson was welcomed in Massachusetts.

Definition
False
Term

True or False?

Puritan influence in New England had begun to increase by the 1670s.

Definition
False
Term

1. The land brige that once connected Siberia and Alaska is now

A. Central America.

B. The Bering Strait

C. The Amazon rain forest

D. The Gulf of California

 

Definition
B. The Bering Strait
Term

2. Which civilization created an accurate calendar between A.D. 300 and A.D. 900?

A. The Mayas

B. The Aztecs 

C.he Incas

D. The Cuzco

Definition
C. The Mayas
Term

3.In the 1400S, whohad the world's largest empire?

A. The Mayas

B. The Spanish

C.he Incas

D. The Aztecs 

 

Definition
C. The Incas
Term

What is the main way in which Native Americans in NA passed on knowledge?

A. through farming

B. through storytelling

c. through writing

d. through pictures

Definition
B. through storytelling
Term

In which area did Native American hunt buffalo?

a. the Eastern Woodlands

b. the Southeast

c. the Arctic

d. the Great Plains

Definition

 

d. the Great Plains

Term

Muslims believe that God's word is contained in the

a. Bible

b. hearts of believers

c. the Koran

d. oral traditions

Definition
D. the Koran
Term

Who ruled Mali at its height?

a. Muhammad

b. Mansa Musa

c. the Songhai

d. Zheng He

Definition

 

B. Mansa Musa

Term

What was the Silk Road?

a. an ancient trade route going North from China.

b. an ancient trade route going south from China

c. an ancient trade route going east from China

d. an ancient trade route going west from China.

Definition

 

D. an ancient trade route going west from China.

Term

What is monotheism?

a. the idea that there is no God.

b. the idea that there is only one God

c. the idea that there are three gods.

d. the idea that there are many gods.

Definition
b. the idea that there is only one God.
Term

In the Roman Republic, laws wee made by

a. the Emperor Octavian

b. popular vote

c. the Catholic Church

d. elected representatives

Definition
d. elected representatives
Term

Which was the first major world Religion to teach the idea that there is only one God?

a. Feudalism

b. Christianity

c. Judaism

d. Democracy

Definition
C.Judaism
Term

Which of the following do most scientists believe played the greatest role in helping the first humans arrive in the Americas?

a. glaciers

b. forests

c. grasslands

d. mountains

Definition
A. glaciers
Term

Arab astronomers determined that the Earth

a.contains oceans and deserts

b. contains trade routes

c. is a sphere

d. is flat

Definition
c. is a sphere
Term

What Native Americans hunted caribou?

a. Arctic Region Native Americans

b. Western Great Plains Region Native Americans

c. Eastern Woodland Native Americans

d. both Artic Region Native Ameicans & Western Great Plains region Native Americans

Definition
A. Arctic Region Native Americans
Term

What conclusion can be drawn from this chart?

a. Native American groups often traded with one another.

b. the environment of Native American groups influenced their food & housing

c. Different types of fish & trees could be found in each area.

d. Native Americans did not like to eat meat and fish.

Definition
B. the environment of Native American groups influenced their food and housing.
Term

Each of the five nations of the Iroquois was made up of clans in which

a. women had great influence

b. Stinkards had to marry nobles

c. whales and seals wher hunted from kayaks

d. a Green corn Ceremony was held each summer.

Definition
A. Women had great influence
Term

Which of these explores may have reached America before Columbus did?

a. Ferdinand Magellan

b. Leif Erikson

c. Amerigo Vespucci

d. Hernando Cortes

Definition
B. Leif Erikson
Term

What explorer discovered a strait that bears his name?

a. Columbus

b. Balboa

c. Magellan

d. Vespucci

Definition
C. Magellan
Term

The Columbian Exchange was a trasfer of people, goods, and ideas between

a. the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

b. the Eastern & Western hemispheres

c. Africa and the Americans

d. Asia and Americas

Definition
b. the eastern and western hemipheres
Term

What happened when Moctezuma offered Cortes gold to get him to leave?

a.Cortes took Moctezuma hostage & claimed Mexico for Spain.

b. Cortes took the gold and returned to Spain.

c. Cortes formed a partnership w/the Aztecs

d. The Aztecs declared Cortes their leader.

Definition
a. Cortes took Moctezuma hostage and claimed Mexico for Spain.
Term

Who gave Florida its name?

a. Hernando Cortes

b. Bartolome de Las Casas

c. Francisco Pizarro

d. Juan Ponce de Leon

Definition
d. Juan Ponce de Leon
Term

What caused the greatest number of Native American fatalities?

a. warfare with Europeans

b. warfare between Native American groups

c. natural disasters

d. diseases spread by European contact

Definition
d. diseases spread by European contact
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