Social studies 6th grade
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- Phoenicians
- another important trading people who lived on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean, started the greek alphabet
- Smelting Iron
- Hittite secret
- Code
- Organized system of laws
- Nomads
- people who regularly moved from place to place
- Medes
- shared the Iranian plateau with the Persians
- Babylonians
- Conquerors of the Sumerians
- Equator
- The imaginary line that cuts the world in half
- Parallels
- another name for latitude lines
- Ahura-Mazda
- The god of light
- Technology
- tools and methods to help humans perform tasks
- Domesticate
- tame animals for human use
- Irrigation
- The watering of dry land by means of canals, ditches, or pipes is known as____.
- Gilgamesh
- Legendary hero of Sumerian culture
- Nebuchadnezzar II
- (Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)
- Stylus
- Pointed stick used for writing
- desert
- a region without water or trees
- Fossils
- Traces of plants or animals preserved in rock
- Harbor
- a sheltered body of water where ships can anchor safely.
- Sun-dried brick
- Sumerian construction material
- Cardinal directions
- North, South, East, and West
- Alexander the Great
- Conquered the Persian Empire in 331 B.C.
- Iraq
- The land called Mesopotamia in ancient times is today part of
- Plateau
- High land with a flat top
- Zoroaster
- A Persian religious teacher who lived about 600 B.C.
- Cuneiform
- Wedge-shaped Sumerian writing system
- Civilization
- A way of life that is advanced enough to include living in cities
- Foothills
- low hills near the base of a mountain
- Globe
- What is the name of the model of our earth
- Historian
- people who study and write about the human past
- Ur
- Leading city-state of Sumer
- Mesopotamia
- "Cradle of civilization", The Fertile Cresent
- Paleolithic Age
- aka the ice age - lasted from 2.5 million to 9,000 bce. the oldest stone chopping tools date back to this era. - invention of tools, mastery of fire, development of language............. CAVE ARTT!
- City-state
- A Sumerian city and its surrounding land
- Peninsula
- land that is almost completely surrounded by water.
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian writing
- Ziggurat
- Sumerian temple
- Secondary source
- a secondhand account. bibliographies, textbooks, and encyclopedias
- Primary source
- a firsthand account.a diary, an autobiography. an eyewitness report about an event, or merely a completed questionnaire
- Mountain
- land rising high
- Chaldeans
- they rebelled because of the Assyria's cruel treatment and took control of Nineveh in 612 BC
- Meridians
- another name for longitude lines
- Hebrews
- known as Israelites--lived in Canaan--belief in one God --leading prophet is Abraham
- Satraps
- The governor of a province in the ancient Persian Empire
- Catal Huyuk
- one of the oldest known cities, in present day Turkey
- Empire
- a group of many different lands under one rulers
- Gulf
- a large, deep body of water extending from ocean into coastline
- astronomers
- people who collect, study.and explain facts about the heavenly bodies
- Plain
- an area of flat or level land
- Lunar
- Type of calendar used by the Sumerians
- Babylon
- Chief city of Hammurabi's empire
- Assyrians
- first people to develop an effective system of empire
- Valley
- low land between hills
- City-state
- An independent city
- Euphrates
- One of the rivers bounding Mesopotamia
- Cyrus
- Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media, Lydia, and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
- Scale
- This object on a map measures distance
- Isthmus
- a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses
- fertile land
- land that has rich soil
- smelting
- heating iron or metals to remove impurities
- Artisan
- Person who is skilled in a craft
- Polytheistic
- Worshiping many gods.
- Sphere
- The shape of a globe
- Anthropologist
- people who study how humans developed & how they related to one another
- Compass Rose
- The object on the map that shows the directionals
- 3500 B.C.
- The Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia in about
- provinces
- political districts
- Assurbanipal
- king of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC)
- Neolithic Age
- "New Stone Age"; About 10,000 years ago marked by advances in the production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture
- Scribe
- Person who is skilled in writing
- Sargon
- the king of Akkadian, conquered all of Mesopotamia and set up the world's 1st empire
- Lake
- an inland body of water
- Ziggurat
- Sumerian temple with many levels
- Sumerians
- First people to live in Mesopotamia
- Delta
- land that has washed downstream and is deposited at the mouth of a river.
- Cavans
- groups of traveling merchants
- Artifacts
- things made by humans long ago
- Jericho
- The oldest known city in the world; located North of the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan.
- The hanging Gardens of Babylon
- A garden tower built for Nebchadnezzer's wife Amytis.
- Latitude
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator