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6th Grade Final Assessment: World History

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the names of the two rivers that surrounded one of the first civilizations, known as Mesopotamia?

a)

The Tigris & The Nile

b)

The Euphrates & The Nile

c)

The Nile & The Amazon

d)

The Tigris & The Euphrates

2.

Pick the two examples out of The Five Themes of Geography listed below.

a)

Location & Geography

b)

Human-Environment Interaction & Travel

c)

Movement & Region

d)

Place & Travel

3.

How many Continents are there on Earth?

a)

6

b)

7

c)

3

d)

1

4.

To find an exact point on Earth we use coordinates. What are these coordinates labelled as?

a)

Latitude & Radiants

b)

Longitudes & Radiants

c)

Degrees & Radiants

d)

Latitude & Longitude

5.

What does Mesopotamia mean?

a)

The land between the rivers.

b)

The land of the Fertile Crescent.

c)

The home to Man

d)

The Cradle of Life

6.

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?

a)

Shrine

b)

Temple

c)

Ziggurat

d)

Tomb

7.

In these first civilizations who was on top of the class system that emerged after people began to specialize?

a)

Kings, priests, and property owners.

b)

Skilled workers

c)

Farmers

d)

Merchants

8.

What was the name of the writing system the ancient Egyptians used?

a)

Cuneiform

b)

Script

c)

Hieroglyphics

d)

Writing

9.

Which of these people were ancient Egyptian Pharaohs?

a)

Tutankhamun

b)

Ra

c)

Hatshepsut

d)

Nefertiti

10.

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?

a)

mummification

b)

entombing

c)

wrapping

d)

embalming

e)

all of the above

11.

What does Judaism, Christianity, & the Islam religion all have in common?

a)

They all celebrate the Sabbath.

b)

They all believe Jesus was the Messiah.

c)

They all are monotheistic religions.

d)

They are all polytheistic religions.

12.

Pick the correct religious timeline: Oldest to youngest.

a)

Judaism Christianity, Islam

b)

Islam, Christianity, Judism

c)

Judaism, Islam, Christianity,

d)

Islam, Judaism, Christianity

13.

What is a body of land surrounded by water on three sides?

a)

peninsula

b)

fjord

c)

isthmus

d)

plain

14.

What does the word democracy mean

a)

rule by the few

b)

rule by the people

c)

warriors rule the land

d)

rule by kings

15.

The ancient Greeks made remarkable achievements in literature and philosophy. One of the most famous philosophers during Greek's Golden Age was

a)

Socrates

b)

Alexander the Great

c)

King Phillip II

d)

Hermes

16.

The Ancient Romans started as a group of rivers that was located along the banks of what river?

a)

The Nile river

b)

The Rhine river

c)

The Tiber river

d)

The Tigris river

17.

When Rome became a republic in 509 BCE, the____________came to power? These officials were elected by the Roman citizens who represented them.

a)

The Emperors

b)

The Senate

c)

The Aristocracy

d)

The Oligarchy

18.

In 27 BCE ancient Rome was transformed from a republic to an Empire. Who was the first Roman emperor to rule Rome?

a)

Nero

b)

Julias Caesar

c)

Cicero

d)

Octavion

19.

This period of peace and cultural growth that the first emperor created was called the Pax Romana also known as the________________

a)

Roman Peace

b)

Roman War

c)

Roman Emperor

d)

Roman Rome

20.

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?

a)

Julias Ceasar

b)

Napoleon

c)

Constantine

d)

Augustus

21.

What event more than any other signified the beginning of the Middle Ages?

a)

The Bubonic Plauge

b)

The development of towns

c)

The Crusades

d)

The collapse of the Roman Empire

22.

What is a piece of land, given in exchange for loyalty and protection called?

a)

fief

b)

estate

c)

manor

d)

none of the above

23.

What document signed by King John of England granted certain rights to the people and said that the king must obey the law?

a)

Constitution

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Code of Edict

d)

Declaration of Independence

24.

What were the series of religious wars between the Christians and the Muslim Turks called?

a)

The Holy Roman Wars

b)

The Punic Wars

c)

The Crusades

d)

The Civil War

25.
a)

When Greek philosophy flourish in the 13th-15th centuries.

b)

The time when Christopher Columbus discovered the New World.

c)

The rebirth of the Roman Empire in the 15th-16th centuries.

d)

The revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.

26.

What is this an image of?

a)

Leonardo da vinci's Mona Lisa

b)

Michelangelo's David

c)

Raphael's Madonna di San Sisto

d)

Donatello's Sandro Botticelli

27.

What was the main reason European merchants looked for a more ‘direct’ route to Asia?

a)

Transporting goods across great distances were costly.

b)

New technology created the opportunity to navigate.

c)

European traders were regularly raided by Turkish raiders on their trips.

d)

They wanted to prove the earth was round.

28.

Who was the name of the man who constructed The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (also known as the Duomo)?

a)

Pablo Picasso

b)

Filippo Brunelleschi

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Leonardo da Vinci

29.

Who invented the microscope during the Scientific Revolution?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Zacharias Janssen

d)

Thomas Edison

30.

Who invented the telescope during the Scientific Revolution?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Zacharias Janssen

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Thomas Edison

31.

What sparked the French Revolution?

a)

After a mob stormed the Bastille, a prison in Paris.

b)

When King Louis XVI of France was executed.

c)

The appointment of Napoleon to Emperor of France.

d)

When the Reign of Terror started.

32.

The storming of the Bastille happened on what date?

a)

July 4th, 1776

b)

July 14th, 1789

c)

July 14, 1765

d)

July 4th, 1675

33.

Ivan the IV was also known as his worse name...

a)

Ivan the Evil

b)

Ivan the Devil

c)

Ivan the Terrible

d)

Ivan the Angry

34.

What was the event called when in 1905 Russia government troops shot workers who marched on the royal palace in St. Petersburg?

a)

Bloody Sunday

b)

Labor Day

c)

Bastille Day

d)

Peter the Great Day

35.

What event sparked the start of World War I?

a)

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

b)

The German army invading Poland.

c)

The sinking of the Lusitania passenger ship.

d)

The assassination of German Kaiser Wilhelm II

36.

Choose all of the reasons for the outbreak of World War 1.

a)

Imperialism

b)

Alliances, Nationalism

c)

Assassination

d)

Imperialism, Colonialism

e)

Militarism

37.

What nations were part of the Triple Alliance

a)

Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary

b)

Germany, France, and Austria-Hungary

c)

Great Britain, France, and Russia

d)

Great Britain, The United States, and France

38.

How did the nations of Eastern Europe differ from those of Western and Northern Europe at the end of the 19th century?

a)

Eastern Europe was much more industrialized than Western and Northern Europe.

b)

The North and West was had more agricultural industries, while the East was a medieval empire.

c)

The North and western nations of Europe were more industrialized while Eastern Europe relied on a more agricultural economy.

d)

All of Europe were industrialized and a massive global market of trade and imperialism was expanding.

39.

What were the large battleships of

World War 1 called?

a)

Battleships

b)

Aircraft Carriers

c)

Dreadnoughts

d)

Valkyries

40.

Who was the fascist leader that took control of Germany in 1933?

He was responsible for the Holocaust.

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Francisco Franco

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Muammar Gaddafi

e)

Mao Zedong