Grade 8 · Social Studies · Unit 27 of 28
The World, 1450 to 1800
Printing, science, revolutions and exchange
What your child practises
Children learn major events from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, including the Scientific Revolution, the Columbian Exchange, and revolutions that changed governments.
Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: 8-KG-043, 8-VC-003, 8-VI-007 · major events in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, the struggles of past societies and lasting art and ideas
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which food came from the Americas to Europe?
- wheat and rice
- potatoes and tomatoes
- tea only
- bananas only
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potatoes and tomatoes
Hint: These crops changed European diets.
Question 2
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans to…
- become kings
- settle in Europe freely
- work in the Americas
- stay home
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work in the Americas
Hint: It was a great injustice that shaped the modern world.
Question 3
The American Revolution began in…
- 1775
- 1492
- 1914
- 1215
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1775
Hint: Colonies in North America declared independence in 1776.
Question 4
Martin Luther's 95 Theses in 1517 began the…
- Crusades
- Protestant Reformation
- Renaissance
- Black Death
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Protestant Reformation
Hint: He challenged some practices of the Church.
Question 5
The Renaissance began in…
- Canada
- Japan
- Italy
- Egypt
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Italy
Hint: It started in the 1300s in city-states like Florence.
Question 6
The first European settlements in the Americas often depended on…
- Indigenous knowledge and trade
- airplanes
- machines
- no one's help
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Indigenous knowledge and trade
Hint: Many Indigenous nations traded and shared knowledge.