Social studies 6th grade
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| Culture | The way of life for a group of people at a particular time
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| Primary source | evidence or an artifact directly from the place
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| artifacts | a simple object made by someone in the past
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| Architecture | the way buildings are planned and made
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| legacies | something passed down through generations such as religions, ideas, or and object
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| irrigation | system used to carry water from a river to where it needed to go
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| pre-history | before records were kept
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| history | records were kept
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| Surplus | an extra supply of something
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| specialization | someone who trains to do a particular kind of work
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| Drought | A long period of time without rain;dry weather
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| barter | to trade
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| hieroglyphics | a from of writing used by egyptians 800 symbols that stand for sounds
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| Rosetta Stone | A black stone found in egypt w/ 3 different languages; hieroglyphics, greek, egyptian demotic
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| apartheid | A seperation of races
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| Khufu | Egyptian pharoah that lead the building of the great pyramid
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| Code of law | A written set of laws that apply to everyone of a government
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| Ziggurat | A temple where people of mesopotamia worshipped gods and godesses
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| polytheism | the belief in many gods
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| monotheism | the belief in one god
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| Abraham | founder of Judaism
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| Hammurabi | king of babylonian; code of hammurabi- eye for an eye, toe for a toe
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| city-state | a self governing city
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| Ancient Sumer | group of city states in mesopotamia
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| Fertile crescent | Fertile region in south western asia
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| Monk | A man that devotes his life to a god, a church, or other religious group
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| Subcontinent | a large landmass connected to a continent
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| Buddhism | Siddhartha Gautama founded; END SUFFERING; dont want anything; a way to live
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| Siddhartha Gautama | Ancient Indian leader known as Buddha who lead salt march
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| Indus River Valley | where Indus is located; between Himalayas and Hindu Kush
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| Himalayas | World's highest mountain range
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| Hindu Kush | NW of India
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| Pakistan | West of India known as a subcontinent
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| Oracle bones | bones used to determine the future or decide who is royal
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| communism | government that owns all of its property
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| Shihuandi | Founded Qin dynasty in China and was emperor
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| Meji Restoration | power was restored to emperor Meji in Japan after being shut off for iver 200 years
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| Feudal Japan | system of organizing and governing society based on land and services
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| Tokugawa Shogunate | emperor who unified Japan
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| Pearl Harbor | Japan bombed and started US involvment in WWII
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| emperor | supreme ruler of an empire
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| archipelago | a chain of islands
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| Oligarchy | a type of government where rich wealthy people rule
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| Homer | epic poet who wrote Odyses and Illyad
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| Alexandera the Great | King of Macedonia
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| Aristotle | Greek Philospher teacher of Alexander the Great
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| Socrates | Greek Philospher who challenged people on how they live sentenced to death
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| Trial By Jury | A case where a jury decides innocent or guilty
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| republic | citizens vote on representatives to speak for them
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| plebians | farmers craftworkers and merchants
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| patricians | noble wealthy people
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| WWII;holocaust | the killing of 6 million jews soley because they were Jewish
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| dictator | supreme power over all and rules all by themself
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| Adolf Hitler | lead Germeny through WWII
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| Manor | Large Estates owned by wealthy nobles
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| Prime Meridian | The 0 degrees Longatude line
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| Equator | The 0 degrees Latitude line
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| Why did the Isrialites leave to go to Egypt? | they left for egypt to go and find food because of the flood that happened where they lived.
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| The Surplus food produced by agriculture meant that _________. | non-farmers were free to develop other important skills
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| Stone Age people used technology when they______. | shaped stones to use for hunting
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| what was the most significant development in human history? | agriculture
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| What did egyptian farmers use irrigation for? | to water their crops
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| How was the religion of ancient hebrews different from Middle Eastern religion? | Hebrews believed in 1 god
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| What was hebrew law governing religious belief and behavior based on? | The ten commandments
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| Who was the king of babylon that built dams alsong the Euphrates and attaked the Sumerians? | Sargon
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| Why did the people that lived in Mohenjo-Daro and Harrapa leave their cities? | Because of an earthquake
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| What does most of the water come from that floods the Indus River? | The snow in the Himalayan Mountains
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| Why do historians know less about the Harrapan civilization then than they do about the Ancient Egyptian and the Mesopotamian? | Historians have not been able to translate (read) their written records.
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| What are the names of the groups that Hindus are divided up into? | castes
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| What did emperor Wudi of the Han dynasty oversee the construction of? | schools
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| What did Shihuangdi set up in order to help unify China? | A system of writing
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| What were the chinese first to invent? | the seismograph
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| What problem did Loess create for the Huang valley farmers? | It clogged irrigation ditches
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| What title was Alexander the great given in Alexandria Egypt? | pharoah
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| What did the tribunes do for the plebians? | Worked to gain their rights
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| Who were slaves? | prisoners of war
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| Why did most children die before age 12 in ancient Rome? | war
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| Why is the ides of March important to Roman history? | it was when Julius Caesar was murdered
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| What are the three main groups that are tied to the early history of Rome are?? | Latins, Greeks, and the Etruscans
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| Who held Japan under firm and unified rule from 1600-1800? | Tokugawa Shogunate
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