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6th grade · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 10

Where Civilizations Grew

Rivers, mountains and seas

What your child practices

How geography shaped Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley and Shang China along their rivers, plus Greece, Rome and the Maya. Includes a reading passage about the Nile flood.

California Content Standards learning standard: 6.1.2; 6.2.1 · where early human communities settled and why the first civilizations grew in river valleys

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Along which river valley did Mesopotamia (Sumer and Babylon) grow?

    🏞️Mesopotamia (Sumer and Babylon)
    • the Huang He (Yellow River)
    • the Nile River
    • the Indus River
    • the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

  2. Question 2

    Ancient Rome grew up on hills beside which river?

    🏛️
    • the Nile
    • the Huang He
    • the Indus
    • the Tiber

  3. Question 3

    The Tigris and Euphrates flooded unpredictably. How did Mesopotamian farmers manage the water?

    • They waited for rain instead
    • They moved to the mountains every spring
    • They dug irrigation canals and built up banks called levees
    • They farmed only on rafts

  4. Question 4

    Most of ancient Mesopotamia lies in which present-day country?

    • India
    • Greece
    • Egypt
    • Iraq

  5. Question 5

    The Indus Valley civilization was located in present-day…

    • Pakistan and northwest India
    • China and Mongolia
    • Iraq and Syria
    • Egypt and Sudan

  6. Question 6

    Why did many of the earliest civilizations grow up along rivers?

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    • Rivers gave water for crops, fertile soil, and routes for travel and trade
    • Mountains were too crowded
    • Rivers kept the weather cold all year
    • There were no animals near rivers

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