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6th Grade Ancient Europe Review

Total questions: 55

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following was NOT a major natural resource found in Ancient Greece?

a)

fertile soil

b)

natural gas

c)

limestone

d)

fish

2.

How did city-states develop?

a)

Mycenaeans built fortified towns that grew into city-states that controlled farms around them

b)

The government drew boundaries on a map and city-states were born

c)

Zeus proclaimed what towns would be city-states and which would not

d)

Poseidon proclaimed any town by the sea to be a city-state

3.

How did the Greeks influence the study of history?

a)

They left huge structures for us to copy

b)

They were the first to note and analyze historic events

c)

They left a giant statue of the Greek gods so we know who they worshipped

d)

They created the chariot

4.

Which common enemy united Athens and Sparta?

a)

Persians

b)

Meads

c)

Russians

d)

Romans

5.

Which of the following was NOT true about Athens?

a)

stressed the arts and learning

b)

had a democracy

c)

had a strong navy

d)

their women enjoyed more freedom than Sparta

6.

Which of the following is NOT true of Sparta?

a)

stressed the military

b)

had a democracy

c)

had a strong army

d)

their women enjoyed more freedom than the women of Athens

7.

Which of the following was NOT a right gained by the plebeians?

a)

representations by tribunes

b)

gained their own assembly

c)

gained the right to talk to the king

d)

gained equal voting power with the patricians

8.

What was the result of Julius Caesar's assassination?

a)

his son became king

b)

it ended the republic and led to the first emperor

c)

set Egypt up as a world power

d)

his daughter became queen

9.

What was NOT one of the elements that helped unify the Roman empire?

a)

citizenship

b)

religion

c)

trade

d)

the phalanx formation

10.

Why did the Jews want to flee Roman rule?

a)

Rome harshly punished Jews who rebelled

b)

Rome wanted to make the Jews their slaves

c)

Rome wanted to put all of the Jews into the military

d)

Rome wanted to make the Jews the court jesters

11.

What was NOT one of the factors that led to the fall of the Roman Empire?

a)

economic problems

b)

mercenaries

c)

invasions

d)

the Black Plague

12.

What did Cyril and Methodius achieve?

a)

they created an alphabet in Cyrillic

b)

they assassinated the emperor

c)

they swam across the Nile

d)

they invented the chariot

13.

What were some of Charlemagne's reforms?

a)

created a school in the palace

b)

revised the legal system

c)

conquered the Romans

d)

conquered the Egyptians

14.

How did medieval monks preserve ancient learning?

a)

copied the Bible and Greek and Roman works

b)

fought in many wars

c)

perfected the phalanx formation

d)

created many old stories

15.

In feudalism, what was the role of the knight?

a)

to protect his lord

b)

to farm the land

c)

to preserve ancient works

d)

to create castles

16.

Soldiers coming back from the Crusades brought spices with them from the Middle East. People liked the spices and wanted more so trade increased between Europe and the Middle East.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Why were medieval city craftsmen known as the middle class?

a)

they were above the nobles and below the peasants

b)

they were above the peasants and below the nobles

c)

they were above the peasants and the nobles

d)

they were below the peasants and the nobles

18.

What did the Magna Carta do?

a)

limit the king's power

b)

limit the lords' and nobles' power

c)

limit the middle class' power

d)

limit the peasants' power

19.

How did the Black Death change Europe?

a)

caused a labor shortage

b)

brought about the decline of manorialism

c)

it brought a lot of people to Europe to live

d)

it made a lot of people very wealthy

20.

How do people organize time?

a)

they divide it into history and prehistory

b)

they create timelines and calendars

c)

they carve faces into rocks

d)

they create desks

21.

Select all of the primary sources

a)

Anne Frank's diary

b)

a video about the French Revolution

c)

a letter written by a soldier in World War 1

d)

Abraham Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address

22.

Select all of the secondary sources

a)

Anne Frank's diary

b)

a video about the French Revolution

c)

a book written about the Cold War

d)

Abraham Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address

23.

Archaeology and anthropology help us to understand what people in the past did, made and believed.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

A historical map can tell you what the capital of every state is

a)

True

b)

False

25.

a city or town that controls surrounding villages and farmland nearby

a)

city-state

b)

oligarchy

c)

cultural hearth

d)

direct democracy

26.

a government in which a small group of people rule

a)

city-state

b)

oligarchy

c)

cultural hearth

d)

philosophy

27.

a center of new practices and ideas that spread

a)

oligarchy

b)

cultural hearth

c)

direct democracy

d)

philosophy

28.

citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of this type of government

a)

direct democracy

b)

oligarchy

c)

monarchy

d)

philosophy

29.

the love of wisdom

a)

philosophy

b)

oligarchy

c)

monarchy

d)

direct democracy

30.

wealthy aristocrats

a)

patricians

b)

plebeians

c)

representative democracy

d)

Pax Romana

31.

non-wealthy or common citizens

a)

patricians

b)

plebeians

c)

direct democracy

d)

aqueducts

32.

elected representatives make the political decisions in this type of government

a)

direct democracy

b)

representative democracy

c)

aqueduct

d)

Pax Romana

33.

the period known as the Roman Peace

a)

Pax Romana

b)

representative democracy

c)

Magna Carta

d)

philosophy

34.

a channel that moves water over great distances

a)

aqueduct

b)

Pax Romana

c)

representative democracy

d)

plebeian

35.

a split

a)

schism

b)

lord

c)

vassal

d)

feudalism

36.

a tribal leader or a king

a)

lord

b)

vassal

c)

feudalism

d)

manorialism

37.

a noble who received land from their lord

a)

lord

b)

vassal

c)

feudalism

d)

manorialism

38.

the system of fights and duties connecting lords and vassals

a)

lord

b)

vassal

c)

feudalism

d)

manorialism

39.

the economic relationship that existed between lords or knights and peasants

a)

feudalism

b)

manorialism

c)

vassal

d)

lord

40.

a series of military expeditions to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule

a)

Crusades

b)

Reconquista

c)

guild

d)

Magna Carta

41.

the reconquering of Spain by the Christians

a)

Magna Carta

b)

Crusades

c)

Reconquista

d)

guilds

42.

an association of people who have a common livelihood

a)

Magna Carta

b)

Crusades

c)

Reconquista

d)

guilds

43.

people who study events in the past

a)

historian

b)

timeline

c)

chronology

d)

period

44.

a line marked off with a series of events and dates

a)

timeline

b)

chronology

c)

period

d)

prehistory

45.

a list of events in the order in which they occurred

a)

prehistory

b)

history

c)

chronology

d)

period

46.

a length of time singled out because of a specific event or development that happened during that time

a)

period

b)

timeline

c)

chronology

d)

history

47.

the time before humans invented writing

a)

history

b)

prehistory

c)

period

d)

era

48.

Information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

artifact

d)

bias

49.

an object made by a human being

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

artifact

d)

bias

50.

information about an event that does not come from a person who experienced that event

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

bias

d)

artifact

51.

an unfair preference for or dislike of something

a)

bias

b)

primary source

c)

secondary source

d)

artifact

52.

the scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence

a)

archaeology

b)

anthropology

c)

oral tradition

d)

historical map

53.

the study of humankind in all aspects

a)

archaeology

b)

anthropology

c)

oral tradition

d)

historical map

54.

a community's cultural and historical background, passed down in spoken stories and songs

a)

archaeology

b)

anthropology

c)

oral tradition

d)

historical map

55.

a special-purpose map that provides information about a place at a certain time in history

a)

archaeology

b)

anthropology

c)

oral tradition

d)

historical map