6th Grade Midterm Study Guide
**Note: Please reference your previous tests, quizzes, and annotations to help you study for the midterm exam.**
Lower Difficulty Topics
1. Visigoths
2. Alaric Sacks Rome
3. Battle of Chalons
4. Germanic gods
5. Collapse of Roman Empire
6. History of Iceland
7. Beginning the Christian Church
8. Christianity in Ireland
9. Gregory the Great
10. Boniface’s Death
11. Statement of Church Beliefs
12. Byzantine Empire
13. Expelling the Moors
14. Islam and It’s Beliefs
15. Constantinople
16. Charlemagne and Christianity
17. Roland and the Saracens
18. Germanic Tribes
19. The Frankish Kingdom and Army
20. Death of Roland
Higher Difficulty Topics
1. Organizing the Early Church
2. Constantinople
3. Decline of the Roman Empire
4. Alaric Sacks Rome
5. Pillars of Islam
6. Benedictine Rule
7. Justinian
8. Charlemagne and His Empire
9. Vikings and Scandinavia
10. Anglo-Saxon England
Mapping
1. France
2. Baghdad
3. England
4. Ireland
5. Constantinople
6. Italy
7. Germany
8. Greece
9. Mecca
10. Spain
11. Arabia
12. Rome
For more information consider the following:
Problems Roman empire faced in the 3rd century and the reforms of Diocletian and Constantine. Know about the barbarians that immigrated into or invaded the empire in the 4th and 5th centuries. This would include the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Franks, Anglo Saxons, and Huns. Know where the Germanic kingdoms were established in the empire and who were their key early leaders.
Identify Byzantine Empire and evolution out of Roman Empire. Be able to explain what allowed it to survive when the West fell.
Understand the life of Muhammed and list the tenants of Islam. Be able to describe how Islam became an empire. Discern Rashidun Caliphs from the later Caliphates and be able to talk about Harun Al-Rashid and the artistic and scientific achievements that took place in Baghdad in the Golden Age.
Be able to describe the basic structure and hierarchy of the early church and be able to understand the institution of the papacy and key individuals and events in the early history of Christian missionaries in Ireland, Britain, and Germany. Understand Benedict and the development of monasticism, what monks’ purpose was and how they lived.
Be able to talk about the Merovingian dynasty in Frankia and how the Carolingian dynasty followed it. Identify early Carolingian rulers and their accomplishments.
Be able to talk about Charlemagne and his empire. What were his military and cultural achievements. In particular be able to describe the Carolingian Renaissance.
Be able to talk about the Norsemen/Vikings. What was their culture and behavior? Be able to talk about Viking settlements and invasions. Examples of settlements: Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland. Invasions: Normandy, Danish Invasion of England
Understand how Alfred the Great defeated the Vikings in England and created a unified English state.
Talk about the collapse of the Frankish empire and the creation of Capetian France and Ottonian Germany.