Duplicate of 6th Grade World History Trivia

Question 1

The cities that developed in southern Mesopotamia were located in a region called...

Accepted Answer

Sumer

Question 2

How did ancient humans get from Asia to the Americas?

Accepted Answer

a land bridge

Question 3

Berbers, traders in Africa, used ____________ to cross the desert.

Accepted Answer

camels

Question 4

Edward Jenner noticed that people infected with ________ were immune to smallpox.

Accepted Answer

cowpox

Question 5

Hindus do NOT believe in...

Accepted Answer

monotheism

Question 6

Who started the Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther

Question 7

What kind of farming technique is shown in this picture?

Accepted Answer

terrace farming

Question 8

What is the Reformation?

Accepted Answer

a movement to change the church

Question 9

Which river carried rich topsoil to Egypt during the annual flood?

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 10

King Tutankhamun is the most famous Pharoah because...

Accepted Answer

he was a king as a young boy

Question 11

These soldiers protect the grave of which Chinese emperor?

Accepted Answer

Qin

Question 12

Sparta and Athens were both Greek ________________.

Accepted Answer

city-states

Question 13

What is porcelain?

Accepted Answer

a type of fine pottery

Question 14

Monk is to monastery as nun is to _________.

Accepted Answer

convent

Question 15

What does "Renaissance" mean?

Accepted Answer

rebirth

Question 16

The Japanese equivalent of knights are _________.

Accepted Answer

samurai

Question 17

The world's first farming region developed in the fertile crescent, which the Greeks called...

Accepted Answer

Mesopotamia

Question 18

In feudal Japan, __________ controlled large pieces of land, which were worked by poor farmers.

Accepted Answer

daimyo

Question 19

To ______________ is to trade products instead of using cash to buy a product.

Accepted Answer

barter

Question 20

What two rivers surround the northern half of India?

Accepted Answer

Ganges, Indus

Question 21

Those manors were controlled by _________________.

Accepted Answer

lords

Question 22

The Maya played a game called _________________ where the losers were put to death.

Accepted Answer

pok-ta-pok

Question 23

During Rome's civil war, Antony fell in love with __________________, an Egyptian queen.

Accepted Answer

Cleopatra

Question 24

The Taj Mahal is...

Accepted Answer

a tomb

Question 25

An idea that is unproven is called a _________.

Accepted Answer

theory

Question 26

A political leader who had to live by Muhammad's example and follow rules of Islam is called...

Accepted Answer

caliph

Question 27

The Aztec myth that came true inspired the forming of what city?

Accepted Answer

Tenochtitlan

Question 28

How long was the Silk Road?

Accepted Answer

4,000 miles

Question 29

Who first discovered that we live in a heliocentric solar system?

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

Question 30

What is a raja?

Accepted Answer

a ruler

Question 31

When mummies were made, the chief priest wore the mask of ______________, god of the dead.

Accepted Answer

Anubis

Question 32

Who is the goddess of wisdom and peace?

Accepted Answer

Athena

Question 33

A _______________ is a Muslim place of worship.

Accepted Answer

mosque

Question 34

In the Kush empire in Africa, farmers used a sickle to...

Accepted Answer

cut grain and tall grass

Question 35

How many pillars of Islam are there?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 36

Who created Buddhism?

Accepted Answer

Siddhartha

Question 37

Which group of traders emerged in Arabia, and their name means "people of the desert"?

Accepted Answer

Bedouins

Question 38

This picture is an example of what Egyptian writing system?

Accepted Answer

Hieroglyphics

Question 39

For Muslims, taking a pilgrimage to ________________ is important once in their life.

Accepted Answer

Mecca

Question 40

Mesopotamia means...

Accepted Answer

the land between the rivers

Question 41

This Empire is famous for advanced fighting techniques, iron weapons, and battering rams.

Accepted Answer

Assyria

Question 42

Who was the first person to circumnavigate the world?

Accepted Answer

Magellan

Question 43

Why was the Imperial City in the Ming Dynasty called the "forbidden city"?

Accepted Answer

common people could not enter it

Question 44

This king of Babylon conquered Mesopotamian city-states, and controlled the entire region.

Accepted Answer

Hammurabi

Question 45

Why is the Huang He called the Yellow River?

Accepted Answer

because the loess turns the river yellow

Question 46

Ancient Greece had the first...

Accepted Answer

democracy

Question 47

Which artist created the following sculpture?

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

Question 48

In European feudalism, kings divided their land into ___________.

Accepted Answer

manors

Question 49

What two natural resources helped the empire of Ghana become wealthy?

Accepted Answer

gold and salt

Question 50

Which European country started the age of exploration?

Accepted Answer

Portugal

Question 51

In the Shang dynasty, special priests used these to tell the future.

Accepted Answer

oracle bones

Question 52

"Pax Romana" means...

Accepted Answer

Roman peace

Question 53

Who is the god of the sun, music, and medicine?

Accepted Answer

Apollo

Question 54

In Rome, the ____________________ were poor farmers and shopkeepers who could not hold office.

Accepted Answer

plebians

Duplicate of 6th Grade World History Trivia

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Duplicate of 6th Grade World History Trivia

Questions 54