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Are You Smarter Than a 6th Grader?
Stafford Municipal School District
Social Studies
This helped crack the code for
hieroglyphics.
Rosetta Stone
What was the murder of 6 million Jews in Europe in the 1940s called?
Holocaust
What is it called when a ruler was both the religious leader and
the king?
theocracy
What is the name for a follower of Jesus?
disciple
What is the form of writing that was recorded on clay
tablets?
cuneiform
What was the scattering of the
Jews to countries in many parts of the
world called?
Diaspora
This was the civilization that began
between the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers.
Mesopotamia
What was a ruler of Egypt called?
pharaoh
What is the belief in one supreme
god called?
monotheism
Where were large tombs
built?
inside pyramids
An early form of paper was made from a plant called
hiero-glyph
flax papyrus scribe
Judaism was first practiced by a small group of people called
Palestin-ians
Phoeni-cians
Sumer-ians
Israelites
The Mesopotamian civilization developed in a region known as
the Dead Sea.
the Fertile Crescent.
the Nile delta.
Constant- inople.
Christians celebrate the day Jesus rose from the dead as
Palm Sunday.
Good Friday.
Easter. Ash Wednes-day.
Hammurabi was the greatest king of
Akkad. Babylon. Phoenicia. Egypt.
Muslims call their god
Allah. Yahweh. Jehovah. Buddha.
The holiest day in Judaism is
Ramadan. Hanuk-kah.
Rosh Hashanah.
Yom Kippur.
We borrowed our 60-minute hour from a number system developed by the
Babylon-ians.
Phoenic-ians.
Egypt-ians.
Sumer-ians.
The Quran contains revelations made to the prophet
Buddha. Yahweh. Muhammad.
Allah.
The five books of Moses, along with the books of laws and teachings, make up the
Torah. Quran. Bible. Ten Command-ments.
Are You Smarter Than a 6th Grader?