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Grade 5 Ancient History
Rigid necklaces made of precious metals called "torcs" were characteristic of La Tene art.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Egypt
Set is often represented by a mouse.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Egypt
Ptah and Osiris are often depicted with green skin.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Egypt
Maat was usually shown holding a snake.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Egypt
Name the three (3) main time periods of Egyptian history:               New Kingdom              ,                 Middle Kingdom                 , and               Old Kingdom              .
Grade 5 Roman Empire
What type of tribes were attacking the Roman borders frequently and relentlessly around the time of the collapse of the empire?
  1. Monarch or King
  2. Germanic or Barbarian
  3. Nobles
  4. They were only attacked after the empire fell.
Grade 5 Greece
The Minoans lived on Crete.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Egypt
Which of the following did not have his tomb robbed of its treasure?
  1. Cheops
  2. Khufu
  3. Tutankhamun
  4. Anubis
Grade 5 Roman Empire
By the year 500, the western half of the Roman Empire had fallen. Which of these is NOT a cause of the fall...
  1. Change in climate and weather
  2. Weakening frontiers
  3. Economic and social issues
  4. Political instability
Grade 5 Ancient History
The land bridge theory says that
  1. hunting groups traveled to North America across Beringia.
  2. early people arrived more than 40,000 years ago.
  3. the first Americans traveled to the Americas in boats.
  4. Native Americans have always lived in the Americas.
Grade 5 Egypt
Ptah was the patron of which job?
  1. scribe
  2. priest
  3. farmer
  4. craftsmen
Grade 5 Egypt
               , the god of deserts and chaos, murdered his brother Osiris.
  1. Anubis
  2. Horus
  3. Aten
  4. Set
Grade 5 Mesopotamia
Which civilization of Mesopotamia is considered to be the first human civilization, also attributed to inventing the wheel, writing, and government?
  1. Akkadians
  2. Persians
  3. Sumerians
  4. Babylonians
Grade 5 Mesopotamia
King Hammurabi built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his homesick wife.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Roman Empire
Julius Caesar updated the Roman calendar and named which month after himself?
  1. February
  2. July
  3. August
  4. December
Grade 5 Egypt
What was the name of the vessels used to hold the intestines, liver, lungs, and stomach of the individual being mummified?
Grade 5 Egypt
Ancient Egyptians learned how to make reed-paper called           papyrus          .
Grade 5 Egypt
What was the name of the salt used to dry out the dead bodies to make mummies?
  1. Niacin
  2. Formaldehyde
  3. Natron
  4. Acid
Grade 5 Mesopotamia
The five known civilizations of Mesopotamia were
  1. Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Syrians, Chinese
  2. Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians
  3. Parisians, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Greeks
  4. None of the Above
Grade 5 Egypt
In the mummification process, which organ was left in the body?
  1. liver
  2. lungs
  3. heart
  4. brain
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