6th grade Social Studies practice sheet

Question 1

What is an era?

• A long period of history with shared features
• A type of coin
• A single day
• A kind of map

Question 2

Put these events from the human story in order, earliest first.

• 🔥Early humans learn to control fire
• 🧍Modern humans (Homo sapiens) appear in Africa
• 🌾People begin farming in Southwest Asia
• 🏙️The first cities grow in Mesopotamia

Question 3

Egyptians preserved bodies by making…

• Aqueducts
• Chinampas
• Mummies
• Ziggurats

Question 4

Which river valley was home to the earliest Chinese dynasties?

• The Indus
• The Tigris
• The Nile
• The Yellow River (Huang He)

Question 5

The ancient Greeks believed their most important gods lived on…

• the island of Crete
• Mount Olympus
• the Great Wall
• the banks of the Nile

Question 6

In Athens, who could vote?

• Women only
• Adult male citizens
• Enslaved people
• Everyone who lived there

Question 7

Emperor Justinian is known for a law code that…

• ended the empire
• started the Olympics
• banned writing
• organized Roman law

Question 8

Why were monasteries important for learning?

• They banned reading.
• Monks copied and kept books, and some ran schools.
• Monks burned all books.
• They were only farms.

Question 9

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) wrote a medical text that was used for centuries. What was it called?

• The Book of Optics
• The Republic
• The Prince
• The Canon of Medicine

Question 10

In medieval Europe, which institution was the center of most people's lives?

• The Silk Road
• The Olympic Games
• The Senate
• The Catholic Church