UAE SOCIAL SCIENCE

GRADE 9: UAE SST Worksheet Vol 1

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The emergence of the Bani Yas and Qasim and the appearance of Foreign powers:1600-1800
1. From which period onwards UAE had trade relation with Iraq ?

Ans: Neolithic period.

2. Who was the first Arab sailor who travelled to China for spice trade?

Ans. Ibn Majid

3. Ibn Majid was the native of which Emirate of UAE ?

Ans. Ras Al Khaima.

4. Name the Portuguese sailor who sailed around the southern tip of Africa in 1488?

Ans. Bartholomiew Diaz.

5. In which year Vasco de Gama landed in Calicut?

Ans.1498

6. Who was Alfonso de Albuquerque ?

Ans. Portugueses naval commander

7. In which year a major revolt occurred in Julphar against Portugese ?

Ans. 1619

8. Which Oman ruler initiated to retake the Portuguese forts ?

Ans. Nasir Bin Murshid

9. In which year Khor Fakkan was liberated from Portugues influence?

Ans. 1643

10. Name the historian who refered Julphar as the main centre of pearl industry?

Ans. Al Idrisi

11. Name the first Dutch ship which landed in the UAE coast .

Ans. Meerkat

12. What facilitated the pearl diving to flourish as the most important economic activity of the UAE after 12th Century?

Ans. Combination of new navigational aids and the expansion of maritime power.
13. From which tribal federation did the Al Nahyan and and Al Qawasim family emerge in the UAE?

Ans. The Bani Yas

14. Who was the first well known Al Nahyan Sheikh ?

Ans. Falah

14. “The father of ,or possession of, the gazelle” is related with the name of which Emirate ?

Ans. Abu Dhabi

15. Under which leader the Bani Yas moved to occupy Abu Dhabi?

Ans. Sheikh Isa

16.According to Dutch sources who founded the Al Qasimi dynasty?

Ans. Sheikh Rahma.

17. In which century the British attempted to expand their influence in the southern gulf?

Ans. 18th Century

18. The Qasim navy had______ ships and _________ sailors.

Ans. 60 ships and 15,000 sailors.

19. Who signed the General maritime treaty ?

Ans. British and rulers of Emirates.

20. The General maritime treaty was signed in the year---------------------?

Ans. January1820.