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Grade 6 · World history

World history quiz for grade 6: Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

This quiz helps revise “Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia” in World history for grade 6. It has 25 questions in five categories: Gift of the Nile, Pyramids and Pharaohs, Writing and Knowledge, Land Between the Rivers, Ancient Inventions. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 11–12
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Gift of the Nile

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Ancient Egyptian civilisation grew up along which river? Its green strip is visible even from space.

  2. 200

    What was the ruler of ancient Egypt called?

  3. 300

    What did the Nile's…

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  4. 400

    Ancient Egyptians wrote on…

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  5. 500

    Which sun god did…

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Pyramids and Pharaohs

  1. 100

    What is the kind of building — the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh — called?

  2. 200

    What is the giant statue with a lion's body and a human head near the pyramids at Giza called?

  3. 300

    For which pharaoh was…

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  4. 400

    This golden mask was…

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  5. 500

    Which woman ruled Egypt…

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Writing and Knowledge

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What are these picture-signs of Egyptian writing called?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    The Sumerians pressed wedge-shaped marks into clay tablets with a reed. What is this writing called?

  3. 300

    The writing on this…

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  4. 400

    Which French scholar first…

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  5. 500

    How many days were…

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Land Between the Rivers

  1. 100

    Mesopotamia lies between which two rivers?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What is this stepped temple tower of Mesopotamia called?

  3. 300

    Which people built the…

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  4. 400

    At the top of…

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  5. 500

    This blue gate with…

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Ancient Inventions

  1. 100

    Which Sumerian invention was useful both to potters and to carts?

  2. 200

    What do we call the system of canals and dams that Egyptians and Sumerians used to water their fields?

  3. 300

    We split an hour…

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  4. 400

    Which Sumerian hero searched…

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  5. 500

    Which of the Seven…

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  3. Choose questions on the board, buzz in first and collect points.

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