5th Grade World History These questions are copyright 1997 Karen Crowther and are not endorsed nor sponsored by the Core Curriculum Foundation nor E.D. Hirsch. They are brought to you as a public service by Redwood Games (http://www.maui.net/~redwood/hs.html) You may use them for personal use provided you do not remove this notice and provided you do not distribute them. WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #1 =========================== ___Read p 107-114 The earliest American civilization we know of was that of the ___________ who lived in ______________________ and ___________________. They Maya existed as early as ________________ What job did most Maya have? ____________________________________. Describe the Mayan's religion _______________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ What happened to the Maya? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ The Aztecs lived in ___________________ from ____________AD to _________. The Aztec city, Tenochtitlan is underneath what modern city? ___________________________ What awful thing did the Aztec religion have them do? _________________________ ________________________________________________________ Why did Montezuma II (leader of the Aztecs) welcome the Spanish soldiers? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ How were the Aztecs defeated? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #2 =========================== __Read p 114-117 Where were the Incas located (where, what mountains, what countries)? ____________________________________________________________________ How many miles of roads did the Incas make? ______________ What activities did the Incas engage in? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ What did the Incas worship? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ What years were the Incas active? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Who conquered the Incas? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ How were the Incas defeated? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Where was Cahokia and how did it get started? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ What year was Cahokia started and what years was it most developed? ____________________________________________________________________ Who were the Anasazi and where did they live? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ When did the Anasazi live? ____________________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #3 =========================== __Read p 117-118 What were conquistadors like Cortes and Pizarro looking for when they sailed west in the 1400's? ____________________________________________________________________ Who were the first counties to send ships west? ___________ & _______________ Later, what two countries sent ships west? ______________ & ___________________ Before the 15th century (the 1400's) who brought the Europeans goods from India, China and Africa? _______________________________ What goods came from India, China and Africa? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Muslims follow the religion of _____________ which was started by ____________________ in the _______________century. The spread of Islam created a common language which was ______________________ Why did Baghdad grow so rich? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ What modern country is Baghdad the capital of? __________________________ What happened to Baghdad in 1258? ____________________________________________________________________ The Crusades were fought beginning in the ____________ century. Why? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #4 =========================== __Read p 119-120 What two reasons caused both the Portuguese and Muslim traders to travel? 1._____________________ 2._____________________________ Who were the Moors? ______________ Where were the Moors? __________________ What Portuguese leader financed sailing trips west?__________________________ What skill did the Portuguese learn from the Muslims that allowed them to sail across the ocean? _____________________________________________ Where is Cape Bojador and what did sailors think would happen if they sailed past it? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ What did Portugal trade from Africa after they learned to sail its West Coast? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ What happened to Bartolomeu Dias? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Where was the Cape of Torment and what was it renamed to? ____________________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #5 =========================== __Read p 120-123 What country did Christopher Columbus sail for? _____________________ Columbus was born in (city, country) _____________, _____________. After King John of Portugal turned him down, Columbus asked __________________________________ of __________________ to back his trip. "In _________ Columbus sailed the ocean blue" with 3 ships: _______________, ______________________ and ___________________ and landed at (city) _________________ in the ____________________________. Why are the Bahamas, Cuba, the Lesser Antilles etc. called the West Indies? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ The West Indies include: 1. The ____________________________ 2. The ____________________________ which include ____________________________________________________________________ 3. The _____________________________ which include ____________________________________________________________________ The Tainos were one of the ______________ people. What kind of greeting did Columbus get from them? ____________________________________________________________________ The ________________ were hostile indigenous people of the West Indies. What is the worst thing that Columbus brought to the New World? ________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #6 =========================== ____read p 123-127 Why didn't Spain and Portugal go to war over their intense competition to conquer the most new land? _____________________________________________________________ What was he Treaty of Tordesillas? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Who set out in 1497 and went around the Cape of Good Hope? _____________________________________________________________ What did sailors die of during long voyages and why? _____________________________________________________________ Where did Da Gama land in May of 1498? ______________________ Who claimed Brazil for the Portuguese? ___________________ What language do the people of Brazil speak today? ____________ What terrible thing did Da Gama do in India? _________________ _____________________________________________________________ What did the Portuguese use to take over the trade routes? ____________________ Who used to control the trade routes to India? ____________ What happened after the Portuguese came? _____________________________________________________________ The first person to sail around the world was ___________________________ from the country of ___________________ in the year ___________________. Who financed the journey around the world? _____________________ Who named the Pacific Ocean? ________________________ Where are the Spice Islands? _____________________________________________________________ The entire rim of the Pacific Ocean is dotted with volcanos. What is this called? _____________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #7 =========================== ___read p 127-129 What was the name of the Chinese explorer who sailed the Indian Ocean in 1405? _____________________. What kind of boats did he sail with? _______________ Why was he ordered to stop exploring? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ The people who live in the Netherlands are called the __________. What Dutch exploring company was formed in 1602? _____________________________________________________________ Why was it formed? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ What countries did it trade with? 1.___________________ 2.___________________ 3.___________________ What goods did this company bring to Europe? 1.___________________ 2.___________________ 3.___________________ What city on the Cape of Good Hope did the Dutch found? _____________________________________________________________ What country in Africa was heavily influenced by the Dutch? _____________________________________________________________ What are the descendants of the Dutch in this country called? WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #8 =========================== ___read p 130 _____________________________________________________________ What company did Queen Elizabeth I give a monopoly on trade in England from the East Indies? _____________________________________________________________ What year did she give this monopoly? _________________ The Spanish dominated exploration of ______________ _____________________________________________________________ The English dominated exploration of __________________ _____________________________________________________________ What were the English looking for? _____________________________________________________________ What were the three largest killers of the indigenous people of the Americas? 1.___________________ 2.___________________ 3.___________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #9 =========================== ____read p 131-132 Where is Cape Bojador? _____________________________________________________________ What were the first Portuguese colonies? 1.___________________ 2.___________________ 3.___________________ What business caused the first demand for slaves? ____________ Where did most of the slaves come from? ___________________ Why did the Europeans give up using natives of the Caribbean as slaves and switch to Africans? _____________________________________________________________ What 3 crops (in order from earliest to latest) increased the demand for slaves? 1.___________________ 2.___________________ 3.___________________ In the mid-1600's where did the following countries have colonies? Spain:_____________________________________________________ Portugal:__________________________________________________ England:___________________________________________________ France:____________________________________________________ Netherlands:_______________________________________________ How did most slaves become slaves? ________________________ __________________________________________________________ What was a major reason that Portugal established a colony in Angola? _______________________________________________ What did Europeans trade the Africans for slaves? 1.___________________ 2.___________________ 3.___________________ 4.___________________ Explain what "Triangle Trade" was: __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ How many African people were sold into slavery between 1520 and 1870? ___________________ Where did most of the slaves end up? __________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #10 =========================== __read p 132-134 Name some West African kingdoms: 1._________________ 2._________________ 3._________________ 4._________________ Name a Southeastern African kingdom: ____________________ Who were some of the first nonAfrican traders to visit Africa's east coast? 1.________________ 2.________________ What did Arab traders use to get to Africa? Explain. ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Why did some east Africans become Muslims? ______________________________________________________________ What did these people call themselves? _________________ What language is now the most widely spoken of the African languages in eastern Africa? _______________________ Name some Swahili city-states: 1.________________________ 2.________________________ 3.________________________ 4.________________________ 5.________________________ Which of these city-states grew especially wealthy with gold? ______________________ Which city-state welcomed Vasco Da Gama in 1498? ______________ What happened after Da Gama reported the riches of the Swahili city-states? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #11 =========================== ___ Read World History p 135-136 Why were the Dark Ages called that? ________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ When were the Dark Ages? ___________ to _____________ What was different about the Islamic areas of the world during Europe's Dark Ages? _____________________________________________________________________________ Where do our numbers and Algebra come from? ______________________________ What Islamic thinker made important contributions to medicine? _______________ Where did Muslim, Jewish and Christian scholars get together to translate Greek documents in the 1100s and 1200s? __________________________________ What did this translation work lead to? __________________________________ What was happening in Italy during the 1400's? ___________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ What was the period from 1350-1600 called in Europe? _______________________ What does this word mean in Latin? ____________________________ During this time focus went from ________________ to ___________________. It was also called the Age of ___________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #12 =========================== ___ Read World History p 136-top sentence of 139 What happened at the end of the Middle Ages that made Italy so wealthy? _____________________________________________________________________________ What class in Italy produced many wealthy men? _____________________ Why? _________________________________________________________________________ What family controlled most of the banking in Florence? ______________________ What did Cosimo _____________ do to insure his family's success? _____________________________________________________________________________ What were the ruling cities of Italy in the early 1400's? _____________________________________________________________________________ Before the Renaissance, learning and education occurred in _________________. During the Renaissance there was a rebirth of _________________ learning meaning people learned _______________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ What happened to Constantinople and how did that affect Europe? _____________________________________________________________________________ Who established an Academy to study Plato's ideas? ________________________ What did Copernicus prove and what happened to him? _____________________________________________________________________________ What did Galileo do and what happened to him? _____________________________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #13 ============================ ___Read World History p 139-140 What encouraged artists during the Renaissance? ____________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Name some famous Renaissance artists: ___________________________________ and ___________________________________________. Who became Pope in 1503 and what did he do? _________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Why were books so rare during the Middle Ages? ______________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Books became more common after the year, _________ because a man named ___________________________________ invented the ____________________________ What was the first book printed by a printing press? _______________________ What happened when some people read the Bible for themselves? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #14 ============================ ___Read World History p 141-143 What did Martin Luther dislike about the Catholic Church in the 1400s? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ In the year, ____________ Martin Luther wrote ___________________. What happened to Martin Luther then? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ What were the new religions which criticized the Catholic Church called? _____________________________________________________________________________ What was the movement to found nonCatholic Churches during the later Renaissance called? _______________________________________ What other critic of the Catholic Church was born in 1509? __________________ What did Calvinists believe in? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What American group was influenced by the Calvinists? ______________________ What was the Counter-Reformation? ___________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Who was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation? _____________________ What did he found? _______________________ known as the _____________________ who became _____________________________ and ________________________________ Henry the Eight (VIII) took the throne of _______________ in the year _______ Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church because ___________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ What church did Henry VIII establish? _______________________________________ Who was head of this English church? _________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #15 ============================ ____Read p 143-145 Elizabeth I was the daughter of _______________________ who had married _____ times trying to have a son. Why do you think Elizabeth I did not marry? ________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What famous playwright lived during the time of Elizabeth I? _________________ Who was Queen of Scotland and what was her relationship to Elizabeth I? _________________________________________________________________________ Tell what happened to the Queen of Scotland: ________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Who was King of Spain and what country was named after him? _________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ In the 1580's what 2 countries were at war? _______________ & _______________ Which side did Elizabeth I support? _________________________________________ What happened because Elizabeth I supported them? __________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ What event marked the beginning of Britain's navy supremacy? _______________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Who let the British fleet in this war? __________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #16 ============================ ____Read p 145-147 During the time of Columbus (the year, _______) what kind of society did Japan have? ____________________________________________________________ Even though Japan had an emperor, he was more influential in __________________ and ____________________ than political power. Who had the most political Power? ___________________________________________ Explain who the samurai were: _____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Who triumphed over all the daimyos and what did he call himself? ______________________________________________________________________________ How long did his family rule Japan? _____________________ Describe the three main religions of Japan and tell how they started, what they believe, etc. 1. Buddhism: ________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 2. Confucianism: _____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. Shintoism: ________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #17 ============================ ____Read p 147-150 Why is Japan called "the land of the rising sun"? ____________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ How many large islands in Japan? ________________ About how big is Japan's total landmass? ___________________________________ What is the terrain like? _________________________________________________ What is Japan's climate like? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ The farthest north large island of Japan is called __________________. The middle and biggest island is called ___________________________ The other middle island is called ________________________ The farthest south big island of Japan is called _________________ What is another name for typhoon? _____________________ What good deed did the typhoons do for Japan? ______________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What does Kamikaze mean and to what did this term first refer? _______________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Were the Japanese of 1400's and 1500's interested in exploration and trade? ___ Why? ______________________________________________________________________________ Why were the only traders allowed in Japan? _________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #18 ============================ ____Read p 150-151 In 1462, thirty years before Columbus sailed to America, who ruled Russia? __________________ who came to be called ________________________________ What were the Russians most concerned about at this time? ________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ At the end of Ivan III's reign, what was the most important city in Russia? ___________________________ When and why did the center of the Eastern Orthodox Church move from Constantinople to Moscow? ______________________________________________________________________________ What church was related to the Eastern Orthodox Church? ___________________ Ivan the Great's grandson named __________________ or _______________________ ___________________ had himself crowned _______________ which means ___________. What did Ivan the Terrible do to get his nickname? __________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ What area did Ivan the Terrible add to the Russian empire? _________________ In 1682 ___________________ nicknamed _______________________________ took control of Russia. WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #19 ============================ ____Read p 151-153 Tell what Peter the Great did: _______________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Peter the Great fought _____________________ on his [east,west,north,south] border and extended the Russian border to the _____________________________ Peter the Great built a new capital city called __________________________ Catherine the Great took over the Russian throne in _______________. Tell what she did: ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Catherine the Great fought the ______________________ and got routes to what body of water? _______________________ She also conquered part of ___________________ What happened to the peasants during her rule? ____________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #20 ============================ ____Read p 153-155 What authority did people believe about their lives and the world during the Middle Ages?_________________________________________ What was the people's attitude during the Renaissance? _________________ _________________________________________________________________________ By the 1700s the "Enlightenment" began. What was that? __________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are the different events that various people say started the "Enlightenment"? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What did Rene Descartes do? _____________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What saying is Descartes famous for? ____________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ (Although Descartes is wellknown as a famous philosopher he is an equally famous mathematician.) What was Isaac Newton famous for? ______________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ (Newton was a sickly youth who came up with many of his discoveries while in his teens and twenties. Many of the most famous mathematicians were in their teens and early twenties when they came up with earth-shattering discoveries and proofs.) WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #21 ============================ ____Read p 155 What did John Locke believe? ___________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What did Baron Charles de Montesquieu publish in 1748? _________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What did Montesquieu's book say? _________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Why were Locke's and Montesquieu's ideas so similar to Thomas Jefferson's ideas? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What U.S. documents were influenced by Locke and Montequieu? Tell how. 1.__________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ 2.__________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #22 ============================= ____Read p 156-158 Who ruled France from 1643-1715 and what was his nickname? ______________ __________________________________________________________________________ Why did he call himself that nickname? ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What palace did Louis XIV build? _______________________________ What did Louis XIV do? ___________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What were the Three Estates of France? 1.__________________________________________________________________________ 2.__________________________________________________________________________ 3.__________________________________________________________________________ Which group resented the Old Regime of France? _______________________ What happened to France's finances after Louis XVI came to power? _________ __________________________________________________________________________ Who was Marie Antoinette and what did she do that made people angry? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What was The National Assembly? ___________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen? ____________ __________________________________________________________________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #23 ============================= ____Read p 158-160 What happened when Louis XVI sent twenty thousand soldiers to Paris to frighten the National Assembly? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ When was the Fall of the Bastille (Bastille Day)? _______________ What did the Fall of the Bastille signal? ________________________________ What was the slogan of the revolutionaries? _______________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What kind of building was the Bastille? ________________________________ What did the revolutionaries do to the King and his family in October 1789? __________________________________________________________________________ What happened when the King and his family tried to escape? __________________________________________________________________________ Why did other European countries attack France? ________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ After two years what was the Assembly replaced with? _____________________ What did this new government do to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and 1,600 other people?_________________________________________________ After the Commune what happened? _______________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What happened to the revolutionary leaders, Robespierre and Danton? __________________________________________________________________________ How many people died during the Reign of Terror? ________________ WORLD HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #24 ============================= ____Read p 160-162 Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born? _______________________ What did Napoleon do in 1799? __________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What was the Napoleonic Code? ____________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What U.S. state uses the Napoleonic Code? ______________________- What did Napoleon crown himself as? ___________________________________ Why did Napolean get into so many battles? ______________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Why did over 400,000 French soldiers die in Russia? ____________________- __________________________________________________________________________ What countries were attacking France? 1._____________________ 3.______________________ 2._______________________ 4.____________________ What did the French people do when Napolean started losing his battles? __________________________________________________________________________ Where is Waterloo and what happened there? ______________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What happened to Napolean after Waterloo? __________________________________________________________________________ What was the important effect of the French Revolution on Europe and the U.S.? 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