Download 6TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES FIRST SEMESTER FINAL

6TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES FIRST SEMESTER FINAL
1. traces of plants or animals preserved in rock
FOSSILS
2. record keepers who often went on to become
government officials
SCRIBES
3. first large army to use iron weapons
ASSYRIAN
4. “New Stone Age”
NEOLITHIC
5. site of one of the world’s first libraries
NINEVEH
6. wild rapids formed by boulders and narrow cliffs
CATARACTS
7. grasslands south of Egypt
SAVANNAS
8. represented loyal wife and mother
ISIS
9. built the Great Pyramid at Giza
KHUFU
10.greatest of the New Kingdom pharaohs
RAMSES II
11.first part of the Hebrew Bible
TORAH
12. formed the basic moral laws of many nations
TEN COMMANDMENTS
13. Chaldean king who captured Jerusalem and exiled
10,000 Jews
NEBUCHADZEZZAR
14. belief that there is only one God
MONOTHEISM
15. being forced to leave one’s homeland
EXILE
16. a Greek market and a place where people meet and
debate
AGORA
17. a person who takes power by force and rules with total
authority
TYRANT
18. the religion of Persia
ZOROASTRIANISM
19. a thinker who ponders the questions about life
PHILOSOPHER
20. a body of land with ocean on three sides
PENINSULA
21. a short tale that teachers a lesson
FABLE
22. a way of teaching still used today
SOCRATIC METHOD
23. a time when Greek ideas spread to non-Greek people
HELLENISTIC ERA
24. belief that happiness comes from doing your duty and
following reason, not emotion
STOICISM
25. a traditional story about gods and goddesses
MYTHS
26. The Paleolithic people were able to survive because they
used… FIRE
27. The Babylonian king Hammurabi is best known for his
LAW CODE
28. What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped
make its army strong? STRONGER IRON
29. What shape does a diagram of Egypt’s social classes
look like? PYRAMID
30. The ancient Egyptian civilization was the first to have
specialists in the field of MEDICINE
31. Who was the female pharaoh? HATSHEPSUT
32. The ancient Israelite faith is known today as what
religion? JUDAISM
33. This was the King secretly anointed by Samuel.
DAVID
34. What is a teacher of the Torah? RABBI
35. Greek city-states were run by their.. CITIZENS
36. What was the Spartan name for a captive worker?
HELOT
37. Who wrote History of the Persian Wars?
HERODOTUS
38. In 431 B.C. Sparta and other city-states joined forces
against Athens to fight this war. PELOPONNESIAN
39. What Greek poet wrote the Illiad? HOMER
40. Socrates was an Athenian sculptor whose true love
was…. PHILOSOPHY
41. At what age did Alexander become King of
Macedonia? TWENTY
42. What Greek is known as “the father of medicine”?
HIPPOCRATES
SHORT ANSWERS:
ANSWER 3 OF THE QUESTIONS BELOW
1. Why do you think death was the penalty for so many of
the crimes in Hammurabi’s Code of Laws?
2. Explain the mummification process used by the ancient
Egyptians.
3. What two things resulted from copying the Hebrew
Bible into Greek?
4. What are three major contributions of ancient Greece to
modern society?
5. What is the moral or lesson of Aesop’s story “The Ant
and the Grasshopper”?
FINAL REVIEW ANSWERS
FINAL REVIEW ANSWERS
AGORA
ASSYRIANS
CATARACT
CITIZENS
DAVID
EXILE
FABLE
FIRE
FOSSILS
HATSHEPSUT
HELLENISTIC ERA
HELOT
HOMER
HERODOTUS
HIPPOCRATES
ISIS
JUDAISM
KHUFU
LAW CODE
MEDICINE
MONOTHEISM
MYTH
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
NEOLITHIC
NINEVEH
PELOPONNESIAN
PENINSULA
PHILOSOPHER
PHILOSOPHY
PYRAMID
RABBI
RAMSES II
SAVANNAS
SCRIBES
SOCRATIC METHOD
STOICISM
STRONGER IRON
TEN COMMANDMENTS
TORAH
TWENTY
TYRANT
ZOROASTRIANISM
AGORA
ASSYRIANS
CATARACT
CITIZENS
DAVID
EXILE
FABLE
FIRE
FOSSILS
HATSHEPSUT
HELLENISTIC ERA
HELOT
HOMER
HERODOTUS
HIPPOCRATES
ISIS
JUDAISM
KHUFU
LAW CODE
MEDICINE
MONOTHEISM
MYTH
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
NEOLITHIC
NINEVEH
PELOPONNESIAN
PENINSULA
PHILOSOPHER
PHILOSOPHY
PYRAMID
RABBI
RAMSES II
SAVANNAS
SCRIBES
SOCRATIC METHOD
STOICISM
STRONGER IRON
TEN COMMANDMENTS
TORAH
TWENTY
TYRANT
ZOROASTRIANISM