Why people specialize and trade, and how coins replaced barter

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

1. 1.

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

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

   City-states adopt coins, in Luz's third chain. Which two coin pictures follow?

   • A turtle for Aegina; Athena and an owl for Athens
   • An owl for Aegina; a turtle for Athens
   • A lion and a bull for both cities, taken from Sardis
   • A turtle for both cities
4. 3.

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

   • Sales speed up
   • Traders weigh lumps of metal and wonder about cheating
   • A piece of metal is guaranteed trustworthy
   • Metal is measured to a set purity and stamped
5. 4.

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

   Use the picture in question 3.

   • Scholars agree on exactly why coins began
   • Coins were invented to slow trading down
   • 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
6. 5.

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

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

   By Zee's chain and note, where did the refinery stand?

   • On an island far from the river
   • Inside the city walls, in the busiest part of the market
   • Near the Pactolus Stream, outside the city walls
   • Beside the sea at Athens
9. 7.

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

   • The 6th and 5th centuries BCE
   • The 7th and 6th centuries BCE
   • The 2nd and 1st centuries BCE
   • The 7th and 6th centuries CE
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?

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