6th Grade Midterm

What is a document or written work created after an event or based on a primary document?

Who are people that study history?

What is the act of training for a particular job that began to appear during the Neolithic Age?

What does B.C. mean?

What is the advanced state of life in which groups of people join together to follow a similar way of life?

What was the wedge-shaped writing system developed in Sumer that was earliest known writing system?

What was the first Indian civilization which developed along the Indus River in Pakistan?

What is an object made by people?

What was the first written language of India developed by the Aryans?

What is a large landmass that is smaller than a continent?

Who were messengers, such as Moses, Elijah, and Isaiah, that God sent to share His word with the people of Israel?

Who was the 2nd king of Israel who was a military leader that conquered the Philistines and wrote many of the Psalms?

What is the name for a long period of extreme cold affecting the whole earth and covering much of the land in glaciers?

What was the period in ancient human culture when people began to make and use a special metal alloy?

What is a plant or animal remain that has been preserved from an earlier time?

What is the religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama teaching freedom from suffering through the Eightfold Path?

What does Paleolithic mean?

What is the name of the ancient Egyptian sun god?

Which of the following is a major river in India? (Know EACH)

What is a person who studies planets and stars, and who could be found among many ancient civilizations?

What is the name for a member of the social upper class that gets their power from their land, wealth, and nobility?

What is the Sanskrit word for “teacher” in India?

What is the largest of the mountain systems along the northern border of India that separates India and China?

What did the Egyptians write on?

What is a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero, such as in the story of Gilgamesh?

What was the gold-covered chest that carried the 10 commandments and other Jewish artifacts central to their faith?

What is the region where a river meets a bigger body of water, such as where the Nile meets the Mediterranean?

Which empire in the Iron Age developed a cruel reputation, which caused many places to surrender without fighting?

What was the name given to Egyptian rulers?

What is the form of government where the ruler is in charge of both politics and religion?

What kind of map shows the names and borders of countries?

What is the name of the calendar that we use now, which was created by a pope and which uses B.C. and A.D.?

What is the celebration of the Exodus from Egypt in which Jews eat the Seder meal?

What was the governing system in which each city governed itself and its surrounding territory, such as in Sumer?

What was the 70 year period in which the Jews were exiled from Judah and the Temple was destroyed.

In Buddhism, what is the state of perfect happiness and peace?

Who were official record keepers in ancient times?

Which empire overthrew the Assyrian empire and were descendants of Hammurabi's Babylonian empire?

What is the name of the ancient Egyptian writing system which used pictures and symbols?

What structures were built by Old Kingdom Egyptian pharaohs as their own tombs, such as the great ones at Giza?

What Greek man is called "the Father of History" for being the first to record historical events systematically?

What was the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt?

What is the system of belief in more than one god or goddess?

How did the Nile River Valley become so fertile?

The system of government in which a group of many lands are governed by a single ruler. (e.g.: Akkad, Assyria, Egypt)

What is an unreasoned, emotional judgment about people and events?

What kind of building was discovered in Neolithic villages showing people of that time worshipped gods and goddesses?

Which group of Jews taught in the synagogues, applied Torah to daily life, and stressed both written and oral law?

What pyramid-shaped structure did the Ancient Sumerians create that had a temple at the top?

What is the oldest surviving and third-largest religion in the world that seeks to break away from the cycle of Samsara?

What kind of map shows land and water features?

What is firsthand evidence of an event in history?

Which Neo-Babylonian emperor defeated the Jewish Kingdom of Judah and exiled many of its inhabitants?

How did the earliest humans get food?

What was the term for an Indian prince of an Aryan tribe?

What is the belief in only one God?

What is the name of the process of supplying dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams?

What place developed the earliest known civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

In Hinduism, what is the one universal spirit that followers seek to return to after death?

Which kind of government is led by a king or queen?

What term is used for people who move from place to place as a group to find food for themselves?

Who was the 3rd king of Israel who was known for his great wisdom and who built the Temple for the Ark of the Covenant?

What is an agreement between God and his people, such as God's promise to protect Israel if they worship him?

What is the cycle of reincarnation in Hinduism?

What Jewish festival is known as the Festival of Lights and celebrates the rededication of the Temple?

What river found in Egypt is the longest in the world and is considered the "lifeblood" of Egypt by ancient Egyptians?

What is a sacred song or poem used in worship in Judaism?

What was the name of the Israelite/Jewish religion?

What does A.D. mean?

What is the name for a public official whose power comes from their position in the government?

What did the Hebrews do to their doors on the night of the last plague in Egypt so God would "pass over" their home?

What were the names of the time periods of Ancient Egypt? (Know EACH)

What does Neolithic mean?

What process of preparing the body after death was a deeply spiritual practice of the Egyptians?

Who were the nomadic warriors and hunters who migrated from Central Asia to India around 1900 B.C. ?