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Study for NYS final
Extra practice for 6th grade New York State social studies final test!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did China have that the FC, India, & Egypt have? How did they survive on it? | They had a river-valley civilization, & they survived on the gifts the river brought. |
| What form of religion did China believe in at 1st? | They believed that their ancestor's spirits spoke to them & guided them. This is how the Mandate of Heaven worked: When the government was declining, an ancestor told someone that they had the divine right of the kings to take over. |
| What are 4 of the ruling families that ruled Ancient China? | The Shang, Qin, Zhou, & Han. |
| What is another name for the Paleolithic Era & why was it called that? | The Old Stone Age because during this time, people started making tools out of stone. |
| What are some of the things that happened in the Neolithic Revolution? | The Ice Age ended, the earth warmed up, new plants & smaller animals survived, & people's diets changed. |
| What do the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, & India have & why did they choose to live there? | They settled near a river-valley civilization because they got: silt, natural protection, trade/transportation route, irrigation system/fresh water source, & thriving animals. |
| Which 2 rivers did the Fertile Crescent have& | The Tigris & Euphrates rivers. |
| What extra gift did Egypt's major river have & why was that important? | It gave papyrus reed plants which are used to make paper for writing & trading. It was only grown in Egypt. |
| What is Egypt's major river? | The Nile. |
| What is India's major river? | The Indus. |
| What is India considered & what geographical feature makes this so? | A sub-continent of Asia because the Himalayas divide India from the rest of Asia. |
| What do all religions have? | Place of worship. |
| Who started Hinduism & where? | The Aryan invaders started it in India. |
| What do Hindus & Buddhists both believe in? | Reincarnation. |
| Who started Buddhism & why? | Siddhartha Guatama discovered suffering so he went to end it. One day, when meditating, he found the answer, & was nicknamed "the Buddha" or, "The Awakened One". |
| Who started Judaism & where? | It originated in the Fertile Crescent when Abraham made a covenant with G-d. |
| What were both Judaism, Christianity, & Islam. | Monotheistic religions. |
| Who started Christianity & why? | A Jewish man named Jesus traveled around to remind Jews about the 10 Commandments. He wanted people to remember to live by the rules that G-d gave Moses all those years before. |
| Who started Islam & why? | Muhámmad was visited by the Angel Gabriel. The angel told him that he was a prophet for Allah ( actually |
| How did Paleolithians(?) get their food | They were hunter-gatherers. |
| What big change happened in the Neolithic revolution? | People could settle in one place because they could domesticate plants & animals. |
| What 3 questions do all religions answer? | 1. how did we get here? 2. How should we live our lives? 3. What happens after we die? |
| What are dharma rules? | Specific rules for each level of the caste system. |
| How many hieroglyphs were there in hieroglyphics? | Over 800! |
| What was Chinese legalism similar to? | Hammurabi's harsh laws & strict punishments. |
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