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Worksheets6th Grade Final Assessment: World History
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins
What were the names of the two rivers that surrounded one of the first civilizations, known as Mesopotamia?
The Tigris & The Nile
The Euphrates & The Nile
The Nile & The Amazon
The Tigris & The Euphrates
Pick the two examples out of The Five Themes of Geography listed below.
Location & Geography
Human-Environment Interaction & Travel
Movement & Region
Place & Travel
How many Continents are there on Earth?
6
7
3
1
To find an exact point on Earth we use coordinates. What are these coordinates labelled as?
Latitude & Radiants
Longitudes & Radiants
Degrees & Radiants
Latitude & Longitude
What does Mesopotamia mean?
The land between the rivers.
The land of the Fertile Crescent.
The home to Man
The Cradle of Life
In ancient city-states like Ur, or Enlil located in Modern Iraq, they usually had a pyramid in the middle of these places. What was the name of the building on top of these pyramids where they performed religious rituals called?
Shrine
Temple
Ziggurat
Tomb
In these first civilizations who was on top of the class system that emerged after people began to specialize?
Kings, priests, and property owners.
Skilled workers
Farmers
Merchants
What was the name of the writing system the ancient Egyptians used?
Cuneiform
Script
Hieroglyphics
Writing
Which of these people were ancient Egyptian Pharaohs?
Tutankhamun
Ra
Hatshepsut
Nefertiti
What was the name of the sacred and precise process that Egyptians did to the bodies of their pharaohs after they died to make sure they could pass on to the after-life?
mummification
entombing
wrapping
embalming
all of the above
What does Judaism, Christianity, & the Islam religion all have in common?
They all celebrate the Sabbath.
They all believe Jesus was the Messiah.
They all are monotheistic religions.
They are all polytheistic religions.
Pick the correct religious timeline: Oldest to youngest.
Judaism Christianity, Islam
Islam, Christianity, Judism
Judaism, Islam, Christianity,
Islam, Judaism, Christianity
What is a body of land surrounded by water on three sides?
peninsula
fjord
isthmus
plain
What does the word democracy mean
rule by the few
rule by the people
warriors rule the land
rule by kings
The ancient Greeks made remarkable achievements in literature and philosophy. One of the most famous philosophers during Greek's Golden Age was
Socrates
Alexander the Great
King Phillip II
Hermes
The Ancient Romans started as a group of rivers that was located along the banks of what river?
The Nile river
The Rhine river
The Tiber river
The Tigris river
When Rome became a republic in 509 BCE, the____________came to power? These officials were elected by the Roman citizens who represented them.
The Emperors
The Senate
The Aristocracy
The Oligarchy
In 27 BCE ancient Rome was transformed from a republic to an Empire. Who was the first Roman emperor to rule Rome?
Nero
Julias Caesar
Cicero
Octavion
This period of peace and cultural growth that the first emperor created was called the Pax Romana also known as the________________
Roman Peace
Roman War
Roman Emperor
Roman Rome
Although the Romans were adversarial to new beliefs like Christianity, a Roman emperor in 306 CE claimed to have had a vision of a cross in the sky before a battle and stated that if he won the battle that he would become a Christian. He was victorious and so he made Christianity the official religion of Rome. Who was the name of this emperor of Rome?
Julias Ceasar
Napoleon
Constantine
Augustus
What event more than any other signified the beginning of the Middle Ages?
The Bubonic Plauge
The development of towns
The Crusades
The collapse of the Roman Empire
What is a piece of land, given in exchange for loyalty and protection called?
fief
estate
manor
none of the above
What document signed by King John of England granted certain rights to the people and said that the king must obey the law?
Constitution
Magna Carta
Code of Edict
Declaration of Independence
What were the series of religious wars between the Christians and the Muslim Turks called?
The Holy Roman Wars
The Punic Wars
The Crusades
The Civil War
When Greek philosophy flourish in the 13th-15th centuries.
The time when Christopher Columbus discovered the New World.
The rebirth of the Roman Empire in the 15th-16th centuries.
The revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
What is this an image of?
Leonardo da vinci's Mona Lisa
Michelangelo's David
Raphael's Madonna di San Sisto
Donatello's Sandro Botticelli
What was the main reason European merchants looked for a more ‘direct’ route to Asia?
Transporting goods across great distances were costly.
New technology created the opportunity to navigate.
European traders were regularly raided by Turkish raiders on their trips.
They wanted to prove the earth was round.
Who was the name of the man who constructed The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (also known as the Duomo)?
Pablo Picasso
Filippo Brunelleschi
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Who invented the microscope during the Scientific Revolution?
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Zacharias Janssen
Thomas Edison
Who invented the telescope during the Scientific Revolution?
Galileo Galilei
Zacharias Janssen
Isaac Newton
Thomas Edison
What sparked the French Revolution?
After a mob stormed the Bastille, a prison in Paris.
When King Louis XVI of France was executed.
The appointment of Napoleon to Emperor of France.
When the Reign of Terror started.
The storming of the Bastille happened on what date?
July 4th, 1776
July 14th, 1789
July 14, 1765
July 4th, 1675
Ivan the IV was also known as his worse name...
Ivan the Evil
Ivan the Devil
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Angry
What was the event called when in 1905 Russia government troops shot workers who marched on the royal palace in St. Petersburg?
Bloody Sunday
Labor Day
Bastille Day
Peter the Great Day
What event sparked the start of World War I?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The German army invading Poland.
The sinking of the Lusitania passenger ship.
The assassination of German Kaiser Wilhelm II
Choose all of the reasons for the outbreak of World War 1.
Imperialism
Alliances, Nationalism
Assassination
Imperialism, Colonialism
Militarism
What nations were part of the Triple Alliance
Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary
Germany, France, and Austria-Hungary
Great Britain, France, and Russia
Great Britain, The United States, and France
How did the nations of Eastern Europe differ from those of Western and Northern Europe at the end of the 19th century?
Eastern Europe was much more industrialized than Western and Northern Europe.
The North and West was had more agricultural industries, while the East was a medieval empire.
The North and western nations of Europe were more industrialized while Eastern Europe relied on a more agricultural economy.
All of Europe were industrialized and a massive global market of trade and imperialism was expanding.
What were the large battleships of
World War 1 called?
Battleships
Aircraft Carriers
Dreadnoughts
Valkyries
Who was the fascist leader that took control of Germany in 1933?
He was responsible for the Holocaust.
Benito Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Adolf Hitler
Muammar Gaddafi
Mao Zedong
