Social Studies 6th grade
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- It is believed that the first humans in the Americas migrated from this region.
- northern Asia
- This was the name of the land bridge that hunters crossed which is now covered by the Berihg Sea.
- Beringia
- This condition is the freezing of much of the earth's water in vast ice sheets.
- Glaciers
- The main Mayan occupation in Mesoamerica.
- Farming
- A word picture, or symbol,that stands for both words and sounds. Archaeologists have discovered over 800 of these in the Mayan writing.
- Glyph
- The worship of this object was common to many Moesoamierican cultures, in cluding the Mayan, the Omec and Aztec.
- Jaguar
- This city was the capital of Inca.
- Cuzco
- With 30,000 inhabitants, this ancient city in present-day Illinois was the largest community in North America.
- Cahokia
- A steep hill with a flat, tablelike top.
- Mesa
- The Anasazi culture and people from the southwest learned from this culture how to cultivate beans and corn.
- Mesoamericans
- A flat-roofed adobe house that often shared adjoining walls and was built on many levels in a step pattern.
- pueblo
- When the grasses and plants of the Sahara gradually died, animals and humans moved on to this regioin south of the Sahara, which includes mountains, grasslands, lakes, rivers, and forests.
- Sub-Saharan
- Dry, grassy areas which cover hearly half of Africa.
- savannas
- A plant or animal that is in danger of completely dying out.
- extinct
- Family ties were important in African villages where people with common ancestors lived together.
- kinships
- Identifying oneself by tracing your ancestry through your father's heritage
- partilineage
- Tracing you kinship through your mother's ancestry.
- matrilineage
- When one group has complete control over a business activity.
- monopoly
- The main good or item brought all the way across the Sahara and through Ghana for trading.
- salt
- To help desert travelers deal with the dangers and risks of their journeys, they traveled in these huge groups.
- caravans
- The Iliad and Odyssey were poems written by this Greek poet.
- Homer
- This describes a long adventure poem.
- epic
- Like Greece, land surrounded on three sides by water.
- peninsula
- Voyaging and trading abroad, the Greeks founded foreign settlements in distant lands ruled originally from home.
- colonies
- This word meant marketplace in Greece.
- Agora
- A greek city-state that is governed by groups of powerful landowners.
- polis
- A form of government by nobility.
- aristocracy
- A ruler who governs by threat of force.
- tyrant
- Stories told by the Greeks from the distant past about the beginning of the world, the birht of gods and goddesses, which helped explain the natural world.
- myths
- The Greeks believed this mythological god was the all-powerful god of the sky and father of all people.
- Zeus
- These were prophesies deliverd in some shrines by priests or priestesses.
- oracles
- This Greek word for the "love of wisdom" is used to describe the exploration of questions about human behavior and morals.
- philosophy
- Military equipment, including portable towers and ramming devices, used by an army to attack cities.
- siege train
- At this site in India, Alexander's weary troops had fought enough and refused to continue.
- Ihelum River
- The ideas of Greek philsophers, scientist, poets, and playwrights which influenced people's thinkg from Egypt to India and changed their cultures.
- Hellenistic