Abeka 7th Grade History Test 6 (Semester Exam) |64 Q’s and A’s

Abeka 7th Grade History Test 6
(Semester Exam) |64 Q’s and A’s
The king and queen of this country sponsored Columbus's voyages - -Spain

- Hugh Capet's rule marked the beginning of this nation - -French

- The first civilization to use writing after the Flood - -Sumerians

- The Egyptian empire reached its greatest extent under this ruler - -
Thutmose III

- The theory that Christ made Peter the head of the Catholic church - -
Petrine Theory

- The dates of the Middle Ages - -A.D. 500-1500

- The decline of the Middle Ages began with this - -Collapse of the Roman
empire

- The peasants of Germany began this to be free from the tyranny of the
church - -Peasants' Revolt

- The Persian king who built the Royal Road - -Darius

- This name means "that makes fruitful" - -Euphrates

- He founded the first permanent French colony in the New World - -Samuel
de Champlain

- He conquered the Inca Indians of Peru - -Francisco Pizarro

- He discovered the Pacific Ocean - -Vasco de Balboa

- He was the first European to reach the Far East by sea - -Vasco da Gama

- He discovered the St. Lawrence River - -Jacques Cartier

- The year of the first Olympic games - -776 B.C.

- The year Julius Caesar died - -44 B.C.

- The year the Holy Roman Empire began - -962