Download Social Studies 6 Midterm Study Guide 2016

Social Studies 6 Midterm Study Guide 2016-2017
Your Social Studies Midterm will consist of a map, matching, true/false, multiple choice, as well
as a short answer question. Please complete this study guide on separate sheets of paper or in
your journal. This study guide is due completed and corrected on the day of your exam for a
substantial grade.
For dates, important peoples, places, and events, it is a good idea to make flash cards and have
either your friends or family quiz you.
Please RE-READ CHAPTERS 25-33 in your​ History Alive! The Ancient
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World textbook. This is
a great way to review!
You may use your textbook and any past tests, quizzes, homework, classwork, and notes to
complete your study guide.
Maps: ​Please be able to label all of the countries below on a blank map of Europe.
Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City
Blue Vocabulary (Matching): ​Please know the meaning and importance of the following words.
Peninsula, Aegean Sea, Colony, monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, assembly, aristocrat,
tyranny, citizen, Athens, Sparta, Peloponnesus, Council of 500, Council of Elders, Agora,
Persian Empire, Persian Wars, Xerxes, Darius, Cavalry, Hellespont, Pericles, Myth,
Socrates, Parthenon, Drama, Panathenaic Games, Acropolis, Peloponnesian War,
Aristotle, Custom, Macedonia, Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Geometry, Latitude,
longitude, biology, Rome, cuniculus, Greco-Roman, Etruscan, Gladiator, Patrician,
Senate, Veto, Plebeian, Consul, Constitution, Republic, Tribune
Questions for Review:​ Please provide the correct answer for each question below.
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What is a peninsula? What oceans surround Greece?
Why did the ancient Greeks not like to travel on land?
How did the Greek mountain affect communication?
What made farming in ancient Greece especially difficult?
Who was the god of the sea? What does Greek worship of this god tell us about their
culture?
6. Why did the Greeks produce so much olive oil?
7. What kinds of animals did the ancient Greeks raise on their farms and why?
8. Why did Greek communities sometimes fight each other?
9. What problem did ancient Greek communities try to solve by starting colonies? Where
were most Greek settlements built?
10. What did settlements o for ancient Greek culture?
11. Why did Greek communities trade? What did they trade, and what did they receive in
return?
12. What did Greek sailors use to help them steer their ships?
13. How was it possible that different parts of Greece had different forms of government?
14. What was the order for how ancient Greek governments developed?
15. How did most kings in ancient Greece come to power?
16. What happened to the king’s advisers after the king lost power?
17. Who belonged to the councils of aristocrats?
18. What might an oligarch do on an ordinary day?
19. What kinds of laws did the oligarchs pass?
20. Oligarchs were thrown out of power by a partnership between whom?
21. In a tyranny, what allowed the leader to rule?
22. Why were some tyrants well liked?
23. How was democracy in Athens different from other ancient forms of government?
24. Ho was the ancient Greek democracy different from democracy in the US today?
25. What Greek city state was famous for its democracy?
26. What feature of Athens’s geography most affected its economy?
27. What physical feature made Sparta somewhat isolated?
28. How would a man become a member of Athens’s Council of 500?
29. What events were held in the agora?
30. Why did Athenian school boys have to memorize everything?
31. A 12 year old Athenian girl would most likely get her education where?
32. Why is Sparta said to have been an oligarchy?
33. Who made the most important government decisions in Sparta?
34. Which sentence best describes education in Sparta?
35. Sparta used heavy iron bars as money. What conclusion does this suggest?
36. What did a Spartan man need to do to become a full citizen?
37. What happened after Sparta conquered a neighboring land?
38. What were the differences between being a woman in Athens vs. Sparta?
39. What advantages did the Greeks have over the Persians?
40. What modern day country did the Persian Empire begin in?
41. How did the Persian Empire Expand it’s territory?
42. Why did the Greeks care about what happened to Iona?
43. What was the outcome of the Ionian Revolt?
44. Why did King Darius ask for presents of Greek earth and water?
45. What were the reasons Persia attacked Greece?
46. To defeat the Persians at Marathon, the Greeks made use of what?
47. Why did Xerxes cross the Hellespont?
48. What happened at the Battle of Thermopylae?
49. After the Persians burned Athens to the ground, how did the Athenians continue to fight?
50. Which of these factors most affected the outcome of the Battle of Salamis?
51. Why was the Battle of Plataea important?
52. What were the results of the Persian wars?
53. Why did Athenians start new construction after the Persian wars?
54. Athens paid salaries to men who held public office. How did that affect the growth of
democracy?
55. Who was Pericles and why was he famous?
56. How did public buildings in Athens look during the Golden Age?
57. What was the Parthenon and why was it built?
58. The oracle of Delphi was a priestess whose words were believed to come from whom?
59. Why was Mount Olympus important to the Greeks?
60. What were the great achievements of Greek sculptures?
61. What were the reasons that actors wore masks in ancient Greek theater?
62. The word philosophy comes from Greek words meaning what?
63. Who was Socrates and for what crime was he arrested?
64. What does the Greek love of sports show about ancient Greeks?
65. Why did the Greeks agree every four years to stop fighting for a brief period?
66. What was an outcome of the Peloponnesian War?
67. What made it possible for Philip II to succeed in Greece?
68. How did Alexander show the influence of his teacher, Aristotle?
69. What did Alexander do to help unite the Greeks under his rule?
70. What happened to the government officials of towns that surrendered to Alexander?
71. Why is Alexander called “Great”?
72. What was Alexander’s goal for his empire?
73. Why did Alexander build cities?
74. Why was the city of Alexandria, in Egypt, especially famous?
75. How did Alexander use religion to help him rule the Egyptians?
76. Alexander told the Greeks that he was the son of who?
77. What did Alexander allow Persians to do in Persia?
78. Why did Alexander receive visitors in a tent?
79. When Alexander reached northern India, what made him turn back?
80. What happened to Alexander’s empire after he died?
81. What was the lasting influence of Alexander’s conquests?
82. The word alphabet comes from what?
83. Why is Herodotus called the “father of history”?
84. What does American Democracy and Greek Democracy have in common?
85. How was ancient Greek democracy different from American democracy today?
86. Why is Hippocrates is called the “father of medicine?”
87. Who where Pythagoras and Euclid?
88. What ideas did the ancient Greeks contribute to math and science?
89. How did Greek scientists make their most important discoveries?
90. Who would be the most likely to use lines of latitude and longitude?
91. How did the philosopher Aristotle affect the modern study of plants and
animals?
92. Know the different kinds of columns and how they can be identified..
93. In what way are many theaters today like the ones in ancient Greece? .
94. What was the purpose of the first Olympics? .
95. What is one way the modern Olympics are like those of ancient Greece? .
96. Who were Romulus and Remus?
97. Who first lived in the area that would become Rome? .
98. What landscape would an early visitor to Rome have seen? .
99. What tourist sights in Rome show Etruscan influence? .
100. What was one reason why the Etruscans might build a cuniculus? .
101. Which dangerous sport did the Romans adapt from the Etruscans?
102. Slaves who became gladiators were required to fight to .
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How did Romans learn about Greek culture? .
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What does this building in Rome show about Roman architecture? .
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How did the Romans get their alphabet? .
106.
Unlike our writing today, both Greek and Roman writing .
107. Regarding the gods, the Romans cared more than the Greeks about what?.
108. What is similar about the Greek and Roman gods?
109. What were the major differences between Greek and Roman art? .
110. According to legend, events on a visit to the oracle at Delphi determined what?
111. Who first ruled early Rome? .
112. In the Roman Republic, patricians referred to who?
113. Why were plebeians unhappy when the Roman Republic was first set up? .
114. Who set up the Roman Republic? .
115. How did plebeians serve the republic during its early years? .
116. What were the major job of the consuls? .
117. What event belongs in the blank space on the timeline? .
118. What was a result of the Conflict of the Orders? .
119. How could a Roman become a tribune? .
120. The power of the tribunes increased when they gained the right to do what?
121. Why did the plebeians want laws to be written? .
122. Plebeians became nearly equal to patricians when they won the right to .
123. Why are both the Roman Republic and the United States today considered
republics? .
Short Answer: ​For your short answer questions, be prepared to answer 1 of the 5 ​following
prompts in no less than one paragraph (introductory sentence, 4 supporting sentences, closing
sentence):
In which city-state would you have rather lived- Athens or Sparta? In the space below,
write a brief response as to why you chose the city state you did. Your reasons must
include facts about Athens and Sparta.
The Greeks did not have much level land for farming or grazing cattle. How did they meet
this challenge?
What was the favorite mode of transportation by the ancient Greeks and why? What did
this mode of transportation lead to with regards to Greek influence and power?
Compare and contrast Athens and Sparta. What are their differences in their approach to
the treatment of women, slaves, government, and economy?
Why do you think Pericles would call Athens the “school of Greece?” Give 3 specific
reasons.