4º SS Unit 6 – ANCIENT HISTORY (Student´s Book and Activity Book SOLUTIONS)

HOMEWORK:

1. Please, check the solutions to the exercises you did this week from the books of S.S. 

   (Student´s Book and Activity Book).

UNIT 6 Social Science – ANCIENT HISTORY

4º SS STUDENT´S BOOK (solutions)

PAGES 94, 95

SOLUTIONS

1 Romans called the Germanic tribes barbarians because of their long beards. The Romans did not usually have beards.

2 a. false (They were the most important Germanic tribe.); b. true; c. false (The Visigoths became the new rulers of the Iberian Peninsula.)

3 No, they learnt after they arrived.

4 It was in ad 410, before arriving in the Iberian Peninsula.

5 Possible answers: Monastery of Suso (La Rioja), Santa Comba church (Ourense), The Verona

Orational (Tarragona).

6 Pupils’ own answers.

PAGES 96, 97

SOLUTIONS

1 They must be 18 years old. Men and women can vote. In Greece only men could vote.

2 They are every four years. No, they are held in a different country each time.

3 Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He is most famous for his algebraic theory, the Pythagorean theorem.

4 A compass shows the direction of the North Pole. From there we calculate the other directions.

5 Kite, ink, fan, porcelain, umbrella, etc.

6 Musical instruments.

PAGES 98, 99

SOLUTIONS

2 -  Answers:

a. true

b. true

c. false (The Greeks founded colonies along the Mediterranean coast.)

d. false (Augustus Caesar was the emperor when the Romans conquered Hispania.)

e. true

3 - 1. a 2. d 3. f 4. b 5. c 6. e 7. g

4 - a. 5 b. 1 c. 3 d. 2 e. 4

5 – Answers: a. Toledo - b. Theodosius I - c. Romans - d. Tunisia - e. Prehistory - f. S. Aemilianus

4º SS ACTIVITY BOOK (solutions)

PAGE 35

SOLUTIONS

8 – Answers :

In AD 395, Emperor Theodosius I divided the Empire…

In AD 410, the Visigoths attacked Rome.

In AD 476, the Western Roman Empire collapsed and…

In AD 526, the Visigoths established their capital city in Toledo.

9 – Answers: 1. GUADALETE; 2. AL-ANDALUS; 3. CHURCHES; 4. VISIGOTHS; 5. LATIN; 6. WRITE; 7. METALWORK

PAGE 37

SOLUTIONS

1 – Answers : 1. Yes, they did. 2. No, they weren´t. 3. Yes, he was. 4. Yes, it could. 5. Yes, they did. 6. Yes, it does. 7. Yes, there are. 8. Yes, they do.