Ancient Greece 6

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Ancient Greece 6

(10 Questions)
California State History-Social Studies Standards
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Ancient Greece 6th Grade Standards

1. Which best describes the geography of the land of Athens? *

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a mountainous land with rocky coastlines

a broad, flat desert

a land covered with frozen tundra and glaciers

a tropical jungle region with vast rainforests

2. Which was true about Spartan lifestyle and culture? *

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https://www.diffen.com/difference/Athens_vs_Sparta

the Spartan people had few possessions, other than their weapons

the Spartan people’s lives were centered around war and conquest

the Spartan people believed in their right to make slaves of the people they conquered, and also to kill slaves to show their power over them

all of the above

3. Who was the great Ancient Greek poet author of The Iliad and The Odyssey that told of epic battles and heroes of great deeds? *

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad

Socrates

Aristotle

Plato

Homer

4. The olive was a very important crop for the people of Athens. What were olives used for in Athens, as they are today? *

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https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/olives

as a cooking oil, a soap, a lubricant, a fuel

a food that can be eaten whole

a product that could be traded in exchange for other goods with neighboring lands such as Egypt and Persia

all of the above

5. Which was a form of entertainment that was enjoyed by people of Ancient Greece in various city-states? *

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video games based on the lives of biblical figures

groups of storytellers that would travel throughout the Mediterranean Peninsula telling stories from memory, including that of The Iliad and The Odyssey

watching battles between robot gladiators

game competitions to show which young girls had the greatest scientific knowledge

6. Which of the choices below represents a Greek contribution to the English language still in use today? *

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parts of the alphabet

words like telephone, which comes from the Greek words tel (far away) and phone (speech sound)

the way English is written, such as sentence structure, paragraphing, grammar, and punctuation

all of the above

7. Which was a contribution to science by the Greek philosopher Aristotle? *

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https://iep.utm.edu/aristotl/

the organization of plants and animals into logical groups based on their characteristics such herbs, shrubs and trees, and animals with a backbone, and those without a backbone

the discovery of the wheel as a form of transportation

the discovery of the heart as a pump of the blood throughout the body

the theory that left-handed people were more intelligent than right-handed people

8. What is a myth? *

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scientific knowledge that Greek scientists discovered about flying insects

a traditional story that is not true, but explains a belief that a group of people have

a large Greek monument built to honor all the mothers of Greece

a bridge built over marshy swamps

9. Under the Great Greek leader named Pericles, Athens entered a Golden Age between the years 479 and 431 B.C.E. What does the phrase Golden Age mean? *

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles

a period where all Athenian citizens discovered gold

a period when Greek armies and navies were conquering all the neighboring lands

a period where there was silence, enforced upon the people by the Greek gods

a period of great peace and wealth, as well as academic and artistic growth

10. Which of these choices is -not- a correct match between the word and its meaning? *

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Geometry - to measure land

Geography - to write about the Earth

Pentathlon - five contests

all of the above are correct matches between word and meaning

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