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?

   • Hieroglyphs were decoded first, before anything else
   • Games were held once in four years
   • Scholars could read the Greek part
   • 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?

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

5. 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.

6. 3.

   Why could later Greek writers date events by Olympiads, Luz asks?

   • Just because the games were famous
   • Just because Greeks liked running races at the games
   • Regular games, and a named winner for each
   • Because scholars 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?

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

    • No: the stone came first
    • Yes: the games came first
    • Yes: both are Greek
    • 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?

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

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

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

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?

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

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