Link causes to effects in ancient history

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   One decree in three scripts

   (196 BCE): The Rosetta Stone carries one decree in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek. Event card "Scholars can read the Greek" (1800s): Scholars of the 1800s could read ancient Greek. Event card "Hieroglyphs decoded" (1822): Champollion explained how to read hieroglyphs, largely using the Rosetta Stone. The middle card of the chain is blank.

2. 1.

   Bo's chain reads: one decree in three scripts → ? → hieroglyphs decoded. Which card fills the blank?

   • Scholars could read the Greek part
   • Hieroglyphs were decoded first, before anything else
   • Games were held once in four years
   • A ball dropped from a dragon head

3. Games every four years

   (from 776 BCE): The Olympic Games were held every four years. Event card "Olympiads" (ancient Greece): Each four-year span, an Olympiad, was named after the winner of the stadion sprint. Event card "Dating by Olympiads" (later Greek writers): Writers used Olympiads as a unit of time to date events. The middle card of the chain is blank.

4. 2.

   Esme's chain reads: games every four years → ? → writers date events by Olympiads. Which card fills the blank?

   • Each four-year span became an Olympiad
   • The ground shook far away
   • Scholars could read Greek
   • Writers had already dated events by Olympiads

5. One decree in three scripts

   (196 BCE): The Rosetta Stone carries one decree in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek. Event card "Scholars can read the Greek" (1800s): Scholars of the 1800s could read ancient Greek. Event card "Hieroglyphs decoded" (1822): Champollion explained how to read hieroglyphs, largely using the Rosetta Stone.

6. 3.

   What helped scholars decode hieroglyphs in 1822, Kira asks?

   • The stone alone, with no scholar able to read any of it
   • The Olympic Games
   • Just the stone's great age
   • The three scripts, and scholars who read Greek

7. A distant earthquake

   (Han China): The ground shakes far from the capital. Event card "A ball drops" (Zhang Heng's seismoscope, 132 CE): A bronze ball drops from one of eight dragon heads into a toad's mouth. Event card "The direction is known" (Han China): Each dragon faces one direction, so the dropped ball shows where the quake was.

8. 4.

   Why could the court learn the direction of a distant earthquake, Milo asks?

   • The shaking dropped a ball, and each dragon faced one way
   • Just because the ball was made of heavy bronze metal
   • Because the games came once in four years
   • Just because there were toads

9. Games every four years

   (from 776 BCE): The Olympic Games were held every four years. Event card "One decree in three scripts" (196 BCE): The Rosetta Stone carries one decree in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek.

10. 5.

    The first Olympics (776 BCE) came before the Rosetta Stone (196 BCE). Did the Olympics cause the stone, Noah asks?

    • Yes: the games came first
    • Yes: both are Greek
    • No: the stone came first
    • No: coming first is not causing

11. Scholars can read the Greek

    (1800s): Scholars of the 1800s could read ancient Greek. Event card "Hieroglyphs decoded" (1822): Champollion explained how to read hieroglyphs, largely using the Rosetta Stone.

12. 6.

    Champollion's 1822 decoding came after scholars could read Greek. Was reading Greek a real cause, Pia asks?

    • Yes: the Greek was compared with the hieroglyphs
    • Yes: anything that happens earlier counts as a cause
    • No: the decoding caused the Greek
    • No: it just happened earlier

13. One decree in three scripts

    (196 BCE): The Rosetta Stone carries one decree in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek. Event card "A ball drops" (Zhang Heng's seismoscope, 132 CE): A bronze ball drops from one of eight dragon heads into a toad's mouth.

14. 7.

    Zhang Heng's seismoscope (132 CE) came after the Rosetta Stone (196 BCE). Did the stone lead to the seismoscope, Ren asks?

    • Yes: both are old
    • No: nothing links them
    • Yes: the stone came first
    • No: the seismoscope caused the stone
15. 8.

    (1822): Champollion explained how to read hieroglyphs, largely using the Rosetta Stone. What was a long-term effect of decoding hieroglyphs, Tala asks?

    • Scholars could read old Egyptian writings
    • The stone was carved in 196 BCE, long before
    • The Olympics began
    • The Nile stopped flooding

16. Olympiads

    (ancient Greece): Each four-year span, an Olympiad, was named after the winner of the stadion sprint. Event card "Dating by Olympiads" (later Greek writers): Writers used Olympiads as a unit of time to date events.

17. 9.

    What was a long-term effect of naming Olympiads, Zee asks?

    • A ball dropped from a dragon
    • Writers used them to date events
    • The Greek part of a stone was read
    • The games began in 776 BCE

18. A ball drops

    (Zhang Heng's seismoscope, 132 CE): A bronze ball drops from one of eight dragon heads into a toad's mouth. Event card "The direction is known" (Han China): Each dragon faces one direction, so the dropped ball shows where the quake was.

19. 10.

    What was the effect of the ball dropping on the seismoscope, Ari asks?

    • The court learned the quake's direction
    • Hieroglyphs were decoded
    • The earthquake started
    • The Olympics were held