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?

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

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
   • Scholars could read Greek
   • The ground shook far away
   • Writers had already dated events by Olympiads

5. 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. The middle card of the chain is blank.

6. 3.

   Jun's chain reads: a distant earthquake → ? → the direction is known. Which card fills the blank?

   • Hieroglyphs were decoded
   • Games were held once in four years
   • A bronze ball drops from a dragon head
   • The direction of the quake was known before it shook

7. 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.

8. 4.

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

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

9. 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.

10. 5.

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

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

11. 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.

12. 6.

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

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

13. 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.

14. 7.

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

15. 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.

16. 8.

    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
    • No: nothing links them
    • Yes: both are old
17. 9.

    (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 Nile stopped flooding
    • The Olympics began

18. 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.

19. 10.

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

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