6th Grade World Cultures
Europe Unit Study Guide
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Part One: Multiple Choice
1. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were ______?
2. Draw a diagram of the feudal society.
3. When Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas, he thought he had sailed to where?
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4. During what period did Christianity become a political power in western Europe ?
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5. What era came after the Middle Ages ended and the pre-modern period began ?
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6. What was it called when European explorers and settlers distributed people, diseases, and ideas around the world in a process called the
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7. Complete this timeline.
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800 B.C. A.D. 400 A.D. 1350 1850
8. The idea that kings and queens ruled by the will of God was called
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9. Why was the Berlin Wall built?
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10. The Cold War (between the US and The Soviet Union) was “cold” because
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11. What is a manor?
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12. Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
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A. During World War II, who were the Axis Powers?
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13. What were some of the consumer goods that came out of the Industrial Revolution
14. What are the effects of a high literacy rate on a country? Name at least three.
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Part Two: Define the following:
15. Constitutional Monarchy
16. Crusades
17. Feudalism
18. Eli Whitney
19. Polis
20. Parliament
21. Leonardo Da Vinci
23. Capitalism
24. Nationalism
25. Holocaust
Part Three: Answer the following questions.
26. Who was Adolf Hitler and what did he stand for?
27. What ended World War II?
28. What brought the United States into World War II?
29. Choose a battle of WWII and tell me who fought, when did the battle occur, where did the battle occur, and why was the battle significant and who was the victor of the battle.
30. Explain Genocide
31. What did our culture borrow from Ancient Greece?
32. What was the first major industry to emerge during the Industrial revolution?
33. In what year and what century did the The Industrial Revolution begin?
34. Who were the serfs during the Middle Ages and describe their life?
35.Choose a European country that is most like the United States and tell me why based on the Culture, the Government, and the Economy.