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A #history review for #6thgrade of #TheStoneAge #Mesopotamia #Egypt #India and #Greece
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1
Macedonian king who was murdered at his daughter's wedding.
Philip
Achilles
Homer
Alexander
2
Taming an animal or plant for use by humans is called
attachment
enslavement
encampment
domestication
3
Euclid is considered one of the greatest ______ in all of world history.
Historians
Mathematicians
Doctors
Scientists
4
On what type of land form is mainland Greece located?
peninsula
flat land
island
valley
5
Winners of the Persian War.
Macedonians
Persians
Greeks
Romans
6
The rocky, hilly land of South Egypt caused ____,or steep rapids, to form.
Deltas
Dams
Cataracts
Rapids
7
The type of arrangement where people specialize in different tasks called ________.
Irrigation
Division of Labor
Production
Assembly
8
The Sumerian writing system was called
Sanskrit
Sargon
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
9
Where was Mesopotamia located?
The Middle East
East Africa
Central Asia
Northeast Africa
10
Aristotle believed people should use _____ to govern their lives.
reason
art
books
science
11
King of the Akkadians, he led his armies to conquer Sumer and took control.
Nebuchaddnezzar
Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
Sargon
12
People who write and study the past of humans are called
nomads
scribes
historians
astronomers
13
Why did Mesopotamia become a thriving civilization?
a cold climate zone
surrounded by trading posts
located on the Tigris and Euphrates
surrounded by mountains
14
What were the two earliest cultural groups to develop in Greece?
Trojans and Olympians
Minoans and Mycenaens
Sumerians and Athenians
Dorians and Hebrews
15
He is known as the father of democracy.
Draco
Cleisthenes
Zeus
Homer
16
The Harappan civilization developed in the valley of which river?
The Inga
The Indus
The Nile
The Tigris
17
_____ was a collection of spells and prayers studied to help obtain the afterlife.
The Book of the Dead
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Hieroglyphics
The Bible
18
In Mesopotamia, what were ziggurats?
temples
paintings
courts
gods
19
City areas
Urban
Countryside
Rural
city-state
20
Pharaohs used a double ____ to symbolize their rule of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Tiara
Title
Hat
Crown
21
One of the most famous Greek heroes was ____ , who fought and defeated the hydra.
Hercules
Homer
Achhilles
Sappho
22
A _____ is a series of rulers from the same family.
Pharaoh
Crown
Monarch
Dynasty
23
What was Egypt originally divided into?
Sumerian and Babylonian
West and East
North and South
Upper and Lower
24
Which is NOT a similarity between Egypt and Mesopotamia?
a written language
flat plains
located on rivers
farming and trade
25
A great medical doctor who developed ideas about how doctors should behave.
Euripedes
Hippocrates
Socrates
Plato
26
Homer's epic poem, the _____, tells the story of the final years of the Trojan War and Achilles
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Book of Life
27
This term describes the government of the United States.
Oligarchy
Representative Democracy
Monarchy
Assembly
28
A part or imprint of something that was once alive.
culture
Fossil
Artifact
Archaeology
29
A poem that is set to music is called a
lyrics
song
poem
lyric poem
30
Who created a school called the Academy for students philosophers & scientists to discuss ideas
Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Archimedes
31
Early peoples used _____ for heat and protection from wild animals.
caves
Axes
Fire
Thunder
32
Akkadians long ago conquered Sumer took control Sargon led his armies in their ____ they roll.
Wheel
Bicycles
Plows
Chariots
33
Unlike Sparta, Athenian women had
LOTS of rights
education
husbands
almost no rights
34
A group of traveling merchants is called a
gaggle
caravan
flotilla
fleet
35
The written language developed in India.
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
Sanskrit
Phoenician
36
This city-state had the strongest army in Greece and joined other Greek cities to fight Persia.
Thermopylae
Knossos
Athens
Sparta
37
In what language were the sacred hymns and poems of the Aryans composed?
Hindi
Sanskrit
Persian
Aryan
38
An _______ is a mixture of two or more metals.
alloy
inoculation
mosaics
metallurgy
39
Also known as Menes, he united Upper and Lowed Egypt.
Ramses II
Narmer
King Tut
Piye
40
The ancient Indians were masters of _______, the science of working with metals.
metallurgy
science
religion
alloy
41
Indian scholar's skill in _______ enabled them to identify seven of the nine planets.
astronomy
metallurgy
politics
Sanskrit
42
The religion of the Persian Empire, it taught that two forces fight for control of the universe
Zoroastrianism
Judaism
Hindduism
Christianity
43
Founder of the Persian Empire, and a great and tolerant king.
Xerxes
Cyrus the Great
Darius
Alexander the Great
44
The effects of good or bad actions on a person's soul.
Brahma
Nirvana
Karma
fasting
45
Alexander the Great was taught by Greek philosopher named
Thucydides
Socrates
Aristotle
Plato
46
King of the Greek Gods.
Homer
Poseidon
Hades
Zeus
47
Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life in Babylonia?
Gilgamesh
Nebuchadnezzar
Hammurabi
Sargon
48
Indian doctor's understood the concept of ______, which helps build human defenses to disease.
fasting
surgery
acupuncture
inoculation
49
Who was responsible for the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922?
Carter Kane
Howard Carter
Howard Stern
The Great Benzoni
50
In Greece, free men who had the right to participate in government were known as this.
citizens
Free men
Rulers
Assemblymen
51
Which of the following did Egyptians consider to be gods?
peasants
tribal leaders
pharaohs
priests
52
Alexander the Great's armies mad it as far east as this river.
Euphrates
Ganges
Tigris
Indus
53
In 415 BC, the army & navy of Athens was badly damaged when they were defeated on the island of
Cyprus
Hawaii
Crete
Sicily
54
The ________ war began when Sparta declared war on Athens.
city state
world war
Peloponnesian
Persian
55
The process of rebirth and a central belief of Hinduism.
Reincarnation
Atman
Rigveda
Nirvana
56
The division of society based by rank or class
Religion
Social Hierarchy
Class
Polytheism
57
Which famous Chaldean monarch rebuilt the city of Babylon?
Nebuchaddnezzar
Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
Sargon
58
The _______ River and the ________ River are India’s most important rivers.
Indus and Ganges
Indian and Indus
Tigris and Bengal
Ganges and Arabian
59
The _____ was a stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics.
The Bible
Alexander's Stone
The Rosetta Stone
Book of the Dead
60
An embalmed body wrapped in cloths strips is a
corpse
dead person
cadaver
mummy
61
A strong Mauryan ruler, who valued life and was kind and tolerant.
Asoka
Sir Gupta
Candragupta Maurya
Theravada
62
Who was the king of the Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia?
Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
Paul
Sargon
63
The opening battle of the Persian War, when Darius invaded Greece.
Salamis
Sparta
Thermopylae
Marathon
64
This term is Greek for "rule of the people.
citizens
Oligarchy
Assembly
Democracy
65
Why were the seas important to the early Greeks?
they provided trade routes
they provided drinking water
they provided water for crops
they provided great places to swim
66
Life after death
afterlife
mummies
walking dead
Utopia
67
A triangle shaped area of land made by soil deposited by a river is called a
Rapid
Delta
Swamp
Cataract
68
This term means "government by the few."
Assembly
Democracy
Republic
Oligarchy
69
The prince who questioned the meaning of human life and went on to create Buddhism.
the Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama
Mahayana
Nirvana
70
What are the seasonal wind patterns that cause India's wet and dry seasons?
typhoons
tornadoes
monsoons
hurricanes
71
_______ was ancient writing, it tells that Sumer city states were always fighting.
Parseltongue
Hieroglyphics
Sanksrit
Cuneiform
72
Where is Egypt located?
West Africa
The Persian Gulf
Northeast Africa
Southeast Africa
73
Athens was the leader of a powerful alliance of Greek city-states called the
Delian League
Peloponnesian League
Spartan League
Athenian League
74
People who performed religious ceremonies
Sargon
Mayors
Priests
Kings
75
This is the city where democracy was born.
Sparta
Crete
Macedonia
Athens
76
An _____ is a tall four sided pillar that is pointed on top.
Pyramid
Obelisk
Sanctuary
Statue
77
Philosopher who wanted people to think and question their own beliefs. He later drank poison.
Plato
Euripedes
Socrates
Aristotle
78
By 9000 BC, people lived on all continents except
Antarctica
Africa
Europe
Asia
79
10,000 soldiers chosen for their bravery and skill, made up the heart of the Persian army.
Death Squad
Spartans
Immortals
The 300
80
People who work to spread their religious beliefs.
Missionaries
the Buddha
teachers
Nirvana
81
A state of perfect peace.
Brahma
Nirvana
Meditation
Reincarnation
82
The Buddha believed that the only way to find truth was to give up
wisdom
family
home
all desires
83
The _____ is the longest river in the world.
Amazon
St. Lawrence
Mississippi
Nile
84
The opposite of Urban areas
Rural
Urban
City-state
Small towns
85
Entering India from the north was difficult because of the presence of which mountains?
The Appalachian
The Andes
The Urals
The Himalayas
