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Social Studies Ch. 1
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6th Grade
10/07/2009

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nomads
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a person who regularly moves from place to place
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province
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political district
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code
Definition
system of principles or rules
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culture
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ways of life shared by members of a group
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epic
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a long poem that tells legendary or heroic deeds
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empire
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group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government
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anthropologist
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focus on human society, they study how humans developed and how they related to one another.
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artisan
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skilled crafts person
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domestication
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to tame animals and plants for human use
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scribe
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record keeper
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cuneiform
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Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings
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prehistory
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the time before people developed writing
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Paleolithic Era
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means old stone. Began 2.5 million years ago and lasted until 8000 B.C.
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hunter gatherers
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some one who hunts and gatherers for there food supply
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ice ages
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long periods of extreme cold
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migrate
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to move to a place to follow game or to get a way from a type of weather or something
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agriculture
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to farm or grow crops
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mesolithic era
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people began to heard animal instead of killing them or domesticating them
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neolithic era
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people learned how to make villages and started to claim land for their farms
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surplus
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growing more food than needed
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social hierarchy
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people held different rakes on society depending on what work they did and on how much wealth or power they had
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ziggurat
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grand temple, mountain of god
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excavate
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to dig out and remove
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architecture
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the art or science of designing and building structures and ones that can be lived in
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polytheism
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belief in or worship of more than one god
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surplus
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the amount more than what is required or necessary
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land bridge
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an isthmus or wider land connection between separate areas which allows animals and plants to cross over and colonize new lands
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division of labor
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tasks and roles intended to increase productivity of labor
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how to use A.D. and B.C. as well as counting centuries
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you use B.C. by every year the number value gets lower and in A.D it is like regular counting and gets larger every year
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primary sources
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first hand experience
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secondary sources
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based on the primary source or stories told about the event
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adapt to survive the ice age?
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change diet, built sturdier shelters used animal furs to make warmer clothing and mastered fire
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reasons for migration
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to move and go where food was abundant and go where weather was tolerable.
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differences between the three time periods/ eras
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Neolithic Era- farmed
Paleolithic Era- old stone and started 2.5 billion years ago and ended 8000 B.C.
Mesolithic Era- domesticated animals and live stock
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Don Johanson
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discovered Lucy, the oldest fossil 3.2 million years old.
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Time White
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found the oldest human ancestor also found 3 human skulls 160 thousand years old homo sapien
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Leakey's
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found out that humans started in Africa 2 million years ago
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development of tools
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made hunting, gathering, building shelter and making clothing much easier
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reasons people began new settlements along rivers
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Because fresh fish available and fresh water and trade was easier.
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Oldest Neolithic communities
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Jericho
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Contributions of the Assyrians
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literature and they erected large temples and palaces
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Contributions of the Chaldeans
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built important landmarks in Babylon and developed the first calendar with a 7 day week
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Sargon
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King of the Akkadians. He conquered all of Mesopotamia creating the worlds first empire
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Nebuchadnezzar
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King that built his own empire. Made Babylon the capital of their empire.
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Gilgamesh
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King who travels around the world with a friend and performs great deeds
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characteristics of a civilization
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cities, division of labor, class division, government, art religion and a writing system
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