Why people specialize and trade, and how coins replaced barter

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

2. 1.

   Metal is measured to a set purity and stamped, in Kira's first chain. Which two effects follow?

   • Traders stop weighing, and the stamp is erased
   • Traders grow more doubtful of the metal, and sales slow down
   • The metal turns to gold, and prices fall
   • Metal is guaranteed trustworthy, and sales speed up
3. 2.

   Which box in Milo's first chain has two arrows going out?

   Use the picture in question 1.

   • Traders weigh lumps of metal and wonder about cheating
   • Metal is measured to a set purity and stamped
   • Sales speed up
   • A piece of metal is guaranteed trustworthy
4. 3.

   Which claim about why coins began fits the sources best, Noah asks?

   Use the picture in question 1.

   • Current research suggests coins made trade faster and more trusted
   • Coins were invented to show off a ruler's face to people in other lands
   • Coins were invented to slow trading down
   • Scholars agree on exactly why coins began
5. 4.

   Which sentence about the refinery and the first coins is careful, Pia asks?

   • The refinery was built after coins had stopped
   • The refinery made the first coins by itself, with nothing else needed
   • The sources show the refinery caused coinage
   • The refinery worked in the same years as the first coins
6. 5.

   Which sentence about the pictures on coins is careful, Ren asks?

   • A coin's picture shows exactly how much gold it holds inside
   • Coin pictures were chosen at random
   • A city's picture told traders who stood behind its coins
   • Traders could not read coin pictures
7. 6.

   By Tala's chain and note, how many years does the lion-and-bull coin's date range span?

   • 114 years
   • 1,106 years
   • 14 years
   • 26 years
9. 7.

   By Ari's chain and note, which centuries do the sources give for the first coins?

   • The 7th and 6th centuries CE
   • The 7th and 6th centuries BCE
   • The 2nd and 1st centuries BCE
   • The 6th and 5th centuries BCE
10. 8.

    Bo's note says, "The first coins were made in Athens." Which fix is right?

    Use the picture in question 7.

    • Leave it: Athens made the first coins
    • Change "first" to "last"
    • Change "Athens" to "western Turkey"
    • Change "coins" to "baskets"
11. 9.

    Esme's note says, "The refinery made electrum from pure gold." Which fix is right?

    • Change "gold" to "coins"
    • Change it: it separated electrum into gold and silver
    • Change "refinery" to "river"
    • Leave it: the refinery mixed pure gold into new electrum
12. 10.

    Jun's note says, "Aegina put an owl on its coins." Which fix is right?

    • Change "Aegina" to "Sardis"
    • Change "coins" to "baskets"
    • Leave it: the owl was Aegina's picture
    • Change "owl" to "turtle"