How Rome began: Italy's geography, the Etruscans and early Roman society

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   How Rome began: legend and evidence

   Part	The legend	What history and archaeology show
   When	?	hilltop villages in the 700s BCE grew into a town
   Who	Romulus and Remus, twins raised by a she-wolf	small villages on the hills beside a river
   Why there	the twins were left on the river bank and survived	a good place on a river that was a trade route
   Clues	a small bronze figure of the wolf and twins, made more than 650 years after 753 BCE	the city grew from wooden huts into stone buildings

   The cell marked ? is blank. Below the chart: a legend is a story handed down, and it may not be fact. The date 753 BCE comes from the legend.

2. 1.

   Luz's chart has a blank: what date does the legend give for the founding of Rome?

   • 753 CE
   • 650 BCE
   • The 700s BCE
   • 753 BCE
3. 2.

   Noah's chart has a blank: why was Rome's place a good one, by history and archaeology?

   • The twins were left on the bank
   • Villages grew into a town
   • On a river used for trade
   • It sat on a seacoast

4. How Rome began: legend and evidence

   Part	The legend	What history and archaeology show
   When	753 BCE, when Romulus founded Rome	hilltop villages in the 700s BCE grew into a town
   Who	Romulus and Remus, twins raised by a she-wolf	small villages on the hills beside a river
   Why there	the twins were left on the river bank and survived	a good place on a river that was a trade route
   Clues	a small bronze figure of the wolf and twins, made more than 650 years after 753 BCE	the city grew from wooden huts into stone buildings

   Below the chart: a legend is a story handed down, and it may not be fact. The date 753 BCE comes from the legend.

5. 3.

   Pia reads the word legend. What is a legend?

   • A story that may not be fact
   • A law carved into a stone tablet
   • A list of the names of old kings
   • A map of a city and its walls
6. 4.

   Ren reads the word archaeology. What is archaeology?

   • Reading a story aloud in a class
   • Drawing a map from memory
   • Counting the people in a big city
   • Studying what people left behind
7. 5.

   Tala reads the word evidence. What is evidence?

   • The date of a birthday
   • A clue about what happened
   • A story told with no proof
   • A guess made with no facts
8. 6.

   Twins raised by a she-wolf. Does that come from the legend or from history and archaeology, Zee asks?

   • Neither of them
   • History and archaeology
   • The legend
   • Both of them
9. 7.

   Hilltop villages that grew into a town. Does that come from the legend or from history and archaeology, Ari asks?

   • The legend of Romulus
   • History and archaeology
   • Neither the legend nor history
   • Both of them together
10. 8.

    A bronze figure of the wolf and twins was made more than 650 years after 753 BCE. What does it show, Bo asks?

    • The twins made the figure
    • The twins really lived
    • Rome began in 753 BCE
    • The story was loved later
11. 9.

    Which came first, the legend's 753 BCE or the year 650 BCE, Jun asks?

    • Both in the same year
    • Neither: both are CE
    • 650 BCE
    • 753 BCE
12. 10.

    How many years are there from 753 BCE to 1 CE, with no year 0, Kira asks?

    • 754 years
    • 753 years
    • 7,530 years
    • 752 years