Mr. Corey -- 6th grade history final
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- What does Greeks eat?
- Olives, apricots, lamb, and wheat
- Yukon
- Whitehorse
- Bureaucracy
- A system of organized government departments staffed by appointed officials
- Karma
- The sum of one person's life, which determines his or her fate in the next life
- earthquakes, nutrients sapped from fields, invaders from the north
- what may have led to the decline of the Indus Valley civilazation
- Shang Dynasty
- Started around 2000 BC. Thy used oracle bones and pictographs.
- vault
- an arch that forms a ceiling or roof
- Manitoba
- Winnipeg
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- Built by king Nebuchadnezzar, a huge jungle tower.It is one of the seven wonders of the world.
- Greatest basketball team
- Duke
- Trans-Eurasian
- Involving continents of Europe and Asia. The crossing over from Europe to Asia
- Dynastic Circle
- 1.Mandate of Heaven: the gods approve the new emperor 2. the dynasty's power grows weaker 3 Disasters such as floods, and invasions occur 4 the people believe that the emperor has lost the gods' approval 5. the dynasty is overthrown 6. the new dynasty restores peace and order.
- Royal Road
- A road built for the empire which king Darius built and was 1,775 miles long.
- What is the largest river in Egypt?
- Nile
- Migration
- To move from one place to another
- Terra Cotta Army
- Shi Huangdi's army that was created for his tomb.
- Turkey
- Ankara
- Nebuchadnezzar
- A Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem,and built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- What was Sparta's strategy?
- Cut off Athen's food suply
- What makes a Government?
- King/Queen,Education,Warriors, People to rule,someone to enforce rules,legal laws,scribes,record keeping
- Anatolia
- The peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas that is now occupied by most of Turkey; also called Asia Minor
- Assyrians
- They are the next group to take over the Fertile Crescent after the Sargon.Their king was king Ashurbanipal.They were defeated by the Medes and the Chaldeans.
- Ahisma
- Nonviolence
- Hyskos
- invaded and conquered Egypt in 1630 BC
- Cultural Diffusion
- A spread of ethnic ideas and customs to other areas of the world
- Prince Edward Island
- Charlottetown
- Reincarnation
- Rebirth of a soul in another body
- when wars became so frequent that military leaders never stepped down
- what was the process in which military leaders became full-time rulers of the Mesopotamian city-state
- six island nations
- cuba, haita, dom. rep, jamaica, bahamas, trinidad and tobago.
- Ziggurat
- an ancient sumerian temple
- civilization
- A human society with advanced level of development in social and political organization and in the arts and sciences
- Hindu-Arabic Numerals
- Numbers -- 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- empire
- serveral independent states brouhgt under the control of one ruler
- Paleolithic Age
- The old stone age 2.5 million - 8000 B.C. was known for the use of stone tools
- Ireland
- Dublin
- Aryans
- A member of the Indo-European people who crossed into India around 1500 BC
- What caused the war?
- The people did not like how the Athenians were using the money from the Delian League
- Hindu Kush
- A mountain range along the northern border of India
- Who won?
- The Spartans
- Northwest Territories
- Yellowknife
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- St. John's
- Greece
- Athens
- were polytheistic, believed in the afterlife, worshipped the Pharaoh
- in terms of religion the acient Egyptians
- Himalayas
- A high mountain range that extends through northern India, southern Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan
- Legalism
- A belief that a ruler should use the legal system to force people to obey laws
- Why are there 20 provinces
- The land was to big so king Darius had to brake the land up to be organized
- fertile
- good for growing crops
- social class
- A group of people with the same parents jobs for example a warrior or farmer
- drought
- A period of little rainfall in which it makes it difficult to grow crops
- Vatican City
- Vatican
- 7 countries of Central America
- Belize,Costa Rica,El Salvador,Guatamala,Hondouras,Nicuragua,Panama
- Gobi Dessert
- A large desert in China, it is on one end of The Great Wall of China.
- Nunavut
- Iqaluit
- Filial Piety
- A respect for one's family or ancestors(one of the teachings of Confucius)
- Italy
- Rome
- What was Athen's strategy?
- Rely on sea power
- Yoga
- It is simple meditations, and is widely used for relaxation.
- Floodplain
- Flat land bordering water or lake
- Monaco
- Monaco
- Qin Dynasty
- Finally unified China. Shi Huangdi was the emperor. He was a legalist,.
- domesticate
- To raise or tend an animal or plant to be the use to humans
- Lucy
- The first human, the first human who left remains of her bones. She lived around 3.5 million years ago.
- 2
- ancient Chinese society was divided into how many social classes
- China
- Mandate of Heaven, no trading with other civilizations, society divided between nobles and peasants, ancestral worship, Zhou Dynasty
- Fertile Crescent
- An area of rich soil in the Middle East, stretching from the Mediterranian Sea through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf
- Ashurbanipal
- The Assyrian king.He collected many writings and many of them were found.
- Why was Cyrus better than Darius?
- Darius was consumed with conquest and not focusing on keeping everyone happy by practicing tolerance
- Confucius
- Confucius was the man who founded Confucianism, and he was a peacemaker who was appointed by the Duke of Lu to the minister of justice.
- Democracy
- People's government
- Saskatchewan
- Regina
- Que'bec
- Que'bec City
- Prince Edward Island
- Charlottetown
- Han Dynasty
- Created a bureaucracy. It began in 202 BC by Liu Bang.
- Mesolithic Age
- The middle stone age, lasted from 10,000 B.C. to 6000 B.C. when we startedto control fire and develope language.
- Mesopotamia
- The land between two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- justice
- Fair treatment of people, in keeping with the law
- province
- A subdivision of an empire or country
- city-state
- A city and it's nearby farmlands -- A political area that works together for a common goal
- What did Pericles build to make Athens beautiful?
- He built the Parthenon
- how did Darius unite an empire?
- He built the Royal Road. He could transport his armies and collect taxes. he always expanded his empire with conquests.
- Code of law
- A set of written rules for people to obey
- a god and ruler
- what are the dual roles of a Pharaoh
- exile
- Forced removal of one's homeland; banned for life
- polytheism
- the belief in more than one God
- Sumerian writing
- cuniform
- When was the first Olympic Games held?
- 776 BC
- tyrant
- a ruler who has taken power illegally and rules with restrictions
- Ukraine
- Kiev
- fuedalism
- a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to a king in return for loyalty and military service
- Examples of traits
- Advanced cities;Kish,Nippur,Ur.Specialized workers;preist,king,artisan.merchants, educators, investors Complex institutions;the temple,army,schools.Record keeping;writing cunieform, pictograph.Advanced technology;irrigation,bronze tools,cuniform,days of week.wheel and plow
- Silk Roads
- Roads which helped in growing crops and trade.
- silt
- Fine soil deposited by a delta.
- British Columbia
- Victoria
- Persian Empire
- extended from India to Greece and help introduce the ideas of organization and importance of toleration and roads
- Slovenia
- Ljubljana
- monsoons
- seasonal winds that dominate India's climate
- What type of rule did Cyrus have?
- toleration
- slash and burn
- Cutting down vegetation then burning it to create fine soil to grow crops
- Philosophy
- A investigation of basic truths about the universe, based on logical resoning
- New Brunswick
- Fredericton
- Capital of China and India
- China - Beijing India- New Delhi
- Andorra
- Andorra La Vella
- Who were the Sumer?
- They are the first civilization,which rose around 3300 B.C..They created bronze,the week,and writing(cuniform).The Sargon took over after.
- Shinto
- Means the "way of the gods". They worship many gods called kami. They believe in the Gods of nature
- Nunavut
- Iqaluit
- Cyprus
- Nicosia
- satraps
- the governor of a province in the ancient Persian Empire. Tax collectors
- Asoka
- The greatest Maurya king, whose reign began in 269 BC.
- Nova Scotia
- Halifax
- Laozi
- The founder of Daoism.
- wheel
- 3500 B.C.
- 5 themes of geography
- Location,Place,Region,Movement,Human-Enviromental Interaction
- Shi Huangdi
- The first emperor of Qin Dynasty which unified china and built a huge place where his tomb is and with over 6000 clay figure Terra Cotta Army horse and people protecting his tomb.
- Ashurbanipal
- An Assyrian king who told people to bring back writings and collected about 20,000 cuniform tablets were now found form him. Made a huge library in Nineveh
- city-state
- a city that functions like an independent country
- Switzerland
- Bern
- king
- The highest ranking leader of a group
- subcontinent
- A large land mass that is part of a continent but considered a separate landform
- Iceland
- Reykjavik
- Zhou Dynasty
- It started around 1027 BC. Started the dynastic cycle.
- Planned City
- A city that is built according to a set design
- silt
- fine,fertile soil deposited by a river.
- France
- Paris
- Siddhartha Guatama
- A prince who founded Buddhism, and gave up his power to become enlightened.
- What was the big war between Athens and Sparta?
- The Peloponnesian War
- Neolithic Age
- The new stone age lasted from 8000 to 3000 B.C. and is was the begining of weaving and pottery
- Dharma
- The collected teachings of Buddha
- Sumer
- An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing.
- geography
- the study of earth and its people
- Plow
- Was created by the Sumerians in 6000 B.C.
- Mandate of Heaven
- The new emperor has the gods' approval
- Ontario
- Toronto
- gain mastery of food supply
- a culture must do this before a civilization can develop
- ziggurat
- An ancient Sumerian or Babylonian temple that rose in steplike levels and was used to observe the stars.It was like a city center
- Daoism
- It is a philosophy which is founded by Laozi. Daoism emphasizes living in harmony with nature
- growth of trade
- Surpluses lead to the growth of trade because they had extra and they needed something else so they would trade
- hunter-gatherers
- A person who gathers food and hunts animals and moves when food gets scarce
- Great Wall of China
- A huge wall that is over 6000 miles, which was built to keep the Mongolians in the north out of China.
- Indus Valley
- Harappan civilization, no social classes, written language not yet deciphered, remarkable planned cities, Hohenjo-Daro
- Greece has three bodies of water surrounding it what is that called?
- Peninsula
- Chaldeans
- The new Babylonians, their king was king Nebuchadnezzar.
- Complex Village
- A lot of people,homes,public buildings,religious center,education, and trade
- The southern tip of Greece forms a seecond penninsula called?
- Peloponnesus
- Trinity
- Father, Son and Holy Spirit
- true
- evidence suggest that the Harappan civilization may have been a theocracy
- line of rule
- 1.Pharaoh 2. Priests and nobles 3. Scribes and government officials 4.Craftspeople and merchants 5.Farmers 6. Slaves
- astronomy
- 365 days based on a star called Sirius. In 365 it turned back to its main position.
- Hinduism
- A religion and philosophy developed in ancient India, characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms
- New Brunswick
- Fredericton
- Caste System
- A social class that a person belongs to by birth.
- mountainous terrain
- what was not a challenge faced by Sumerians
- What is direct democracy?
- The citizens run the government
- Mining
- 6000 BC. copper, later iron, then gold. Turquoise and lazuli
- Hungary
- Budapest
- Finland
- Helsinki
- 4
- Sumerians's society was divided into how many social classes
- Yukon
- Whitehorse
- Harrapan Civilization
- An ancient Indian culture , dating back to 2500 BC, that included the people of the entire Indus River region
- loess
- a yellowish silt-like fertile soil found in the bed of the Yellow River
- Technology
- the use of one's mind to create what is neaded.
- empire
- A group of territories and peoples brought together under one supreme leader
- What % of mountains cover Greece?
- 70-80%
- cultural diffusion
- spreading of cultural traits from one place to another
- Monsoon
- A seasonal wind that produces a wet or dry period in a region, especially in southern Asia
- Alberta
- Edmonton
- Nirvana
- A state pf wisdom which breaks the cycle of reincarnation
- Indo Gangetic Plain, Deccan Platue, Southern Tropical Lands
- what are the three geographic regions of the Indian subcontinent
- Brahmanism
- The early religion of the Aryans in ancient India which leds to Hinduism
- tribute
- A payment of money or goods by one ruler to another in order to ensure protection
- crops
- dough (risen), yeast,lettuce, radishes, asparagus, cucumbers, dates, figs, grapes, watermelons, and linen.
- United Kingdom
- London
- Ontario
- Toronto
- Parthenon
- The temple for Athena the goddess of wisdom
- Zues
- the ruler of the gods in Greek
- could be learned by all people & were over 500 characters to learn
- what was an advantage and disadvantage of China's system of writing
- 6 big ideas
- Government,Geography,Culture,Beleif Sytems, Science and Technology,Economics
- Russia
- Moscow
- When did the Golden Age begin?
- 477 BC
- the wealthy and poor were not treated equally
- what was a negative aspect of Hammurabi's Code
- government
- A system for creating order and providing leadership. Laws and rules and maintaining order in an effort to promote the economy.
- Manitoba
- Winnipeg
- Northwest Territories
- Yellowknife
- Shang
- this dynasty ruled China from 1700 BC to 1027 BC
- Hammurabi
- The ruler of the Babylonian empire from 1792 to 1750 B.C. and created the first legal code of laws.
- Denmark
- Copenhagen
- Pictograph
- A picture or drawing that represents a word or an idea in an early system of writing
- scirbes
- People who where profesional writers who served as record keepers.
- A narrow strip of land connected in between Greece what is it called?
- Isthus
- Two major rivers in India
- Ganges, and Indus
- Sargon
- The first empire,aka the Akkadian empire.Hammurabi was their king.
- What important inventions came from mesopotamia
- Wheel, plow, writing, law codes, irrigation, days of the week, 60 minutes, 60 seconds
- What are the different castes in the caste system
- Untouchables, Sudra, Vaisya, Ksatriya, and Brahmin
- Who ruled Athens until his death?
- Pericles
- in the Nile Delta
- Lower Egypt was
- What is the capitol of Greece and the capitol of Greece Golden Age?
- Athens
- houses
- Made by using bricks made of mud near the Nile mixed with chopped up straw
- Nova Scotia
- Halifax
- Gandhi
- A leader who used nonviolence (ahisma) to oppose the British rule of India
- polytheism
- belief in many gods
- Who were the Phoenicians?
- They were poeple who lived in Greece before the Athenians and Spartans. They also created the alphabet
- Alberta
- Edmonton
- South America
- Argentina,Bolivia,Brazil,Chile,Columbia,Ecuador,French Guiana,Guyana,Paraguay,Peru,Surinam,Uruguay,Venezuela
- written language had no link to spoken language
- what was unique about China's system of writing
- temple priests
- who ran Sumer's earliest governments
- Yellow (Haung He) River
- which river is known as "China's Sorrow"
- oracle bone
- used by Chinese to ask questions of the gods
- culture
- the way of life of a group of people
- papyrus
- reeds grown in Nile Delta, used as paper
- 2400 BC
- Farming Technology, shaduf
- religeon
- The worship of god,gods, or spirits
- Saskatchewan
- Regina
- Spain
- Madrid
- Sweden
- Stockholm
- Who invented wheel, ploew, calendar, medicine, paper, days of the week, and bronze.
- wheel-Mesopotamians. Plow-Mesopotamians calendar-Egyptians medicine-Chinese paper-Chinese days of the week-Mesopotamians bronze-Mesopotamians
- Netherlands
- Amsterdam
- Egypt
- Narmar, flooding predictable, Memphis
- Who stole fire from the gods?
- Promethius
- Buddhism
- It is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Guatama (aka Buddha) Follow the Middle Path or Eight fold PAth
- 4 types of homonids
- Austrolopithecine,Homo Habilis,Homo Erectus,Homo Sapiens
- Latvia
- Riga
- Hammurabi's purpose of his code
- He made laws so there is justice.
- 5 traits of civilization
- Advanced Technology,Advanced Cities,Record Keeping,Complex Institutions,Specialized workers
- This allowed poor people to be politicians
- paid officials
- Mesopotamia
- Hammurabi, Sargon of Akkad, no natural barriers, Babylonian Empire, Ur, Invented wheel, Fertile Crescent
- Irrigation
- To dig ditches to water your crops.
- Farming started
- 8000 B.C.E. to 5000 B.C.E.
- cataract
- water fall
- delta
- An area near a river's mouth where it deposits fine soil.
- What is the world's largest desert
- antarctica
- Oracle Bones
- An animal bone or turtle shell used by the Shang kings of China to communicate with and influence the gods.
- British Columbia
- Victoria
- theocracy
- a type of government in which rule is based on religious authority
- Belgium
- Brussels
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- St. John's
- Mesopotamia
- the Harappans traded with the peoples of
- Warring States
- 7 states of China going into war.
- Communism
- A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
- Austria
- Vienna
- True
- Ancient China was isolated from other civilizations
- Portugal
- Lisbon
- Surplus
- An extra of something.
- Que'bec
- Que'bec City
- Germany
- Berlin
- delta
- broad, marshy triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river
- Neanderthals
- (Homo Neanderthalensis) were a extinct species or subspecies ( Homo Sapiens) that lived in the middle Paleolithic Age