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6th grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 12

Time & Evidence

BCE and CE, artifacts and sources

What your child practices

Counting years in BCE and CE, centuries and calendars, artifacts and archaeology, and judging primary and secondary sources about the ancient world.

Oregon State Standards learning standard: 6/7.H.CH.1; 6/7.H.CC.4 · timelines of key periods and using primary and secondary sources about the ancient world

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which came last?

    • Hammurabi's Code (about 1754 BCE)
    • Qin unifies China (221 BCE)
    • The Magna Carta (1215 CE)
    • The founding of Rome (753 BCE)

  2. Question 2

    What is a millennium?

    • 1000 years
    • 100 years
    • 10 years
    • 1,000,000 years

  3. Question 3

    The year 1450 CE is in which century?

    • The 14th century
    • The 145th century
    • The 16th century
    • The 15th century

  4. Question 4

    Why do different cultures measure time differently?

    • They base calendars on different events and cycles
    • They can't count
    • Only one calendar is real
    • Time is different in each country

  5. Question 5

    Which is a secondary source about ancient Rome?

    • A Roman mosaic
    • A letter by a Roman senator
    • A historian's book written in 2010
    • A Roman coin

  6. Question 6

    A timeline of world history shows Rome and the Han dynasty at the same time. What does that tell you?

    • China ruled Rome
    • They existed 1000 years apart
    • Both were powerful in the same era
    • Rome ruled China

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