First Semester Exam Study Guide part 1

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1 _ Date: First Semester Exam Study Guide part 1 INCLUDE TEXTBOOK PAGE NUMBERS WITH THE ANSWER! Short Answer 1. Mesopotamia s climate was 2. Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery are called 3. Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life? 4. People who study and write about the human past are called 5. The Sumerian writing system was called 6. Which city was the center of the Chaldean empire? 7. A mixture of copper and tin is called 8. Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth were the 9. Artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group. Sixth Grade Social Studies Page 1

2 10. A group of traveling merchants is called a 11. Scientists who study artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past. 12. Which people rebelled against the Assyrians? 13. The first kings were probably 14. Which of these are Sumerian inventions? 15. Taming an animal or plant for use by humans is called 16. Which of the following were members of the upper class? 17. Who was the king of the Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia? 18. What helped ideas spread around the acient world. 19. Something that passes to the children when the parent dies is 20. These people built a great army to protect their lands from invasion. Sixth Grade Social Studies Page 2

3 21. Also known as Menes, he united Upper and Lower Egypt. 22. The natural barrier that protected Egypt in the south was the 23. The Nile River s flooding could be described as 24. The king who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt was 25. What crops did the Egyptians grow? 26. The land around the Nile River delta is known as 27. was a collection of spells and prayers studied to help obtain the afterlife. 28. The forced payments sent to the pharaoh by conquered peoples are called 29. The capital of Kush, located on a trade route, was 30. An embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips is a 31. A line of rulers that passes power from father to son is a Sixth Grade Social Studies Page 3

4 32. The Egyptian invention to prevent the pharaoh s body from decomposing was 33. The place where Egyptian families spent time together was their 34. The chief god of the Egyptians was 35. The Kushites moved their capital to Meroë to be close to 36. Who tried to give the Egyptians a new religion? 37. Which of these was a result of the Nile River s flooding? 38. Today we call it Sudan. The ancient Egyptians called it 39. The woman pharaoh who concentrated on building the Egyptian economy was 40. Egyptians traded for 41. Jewish religious teachers are called 42. was a model of devotion to family held up for Jewish girls to imitate. Sixth Grade Social Studies Page 4

5 43. raised 12 sons, who became the 12 tribes of Israel. 44. was the warrior-farmer anointed king by the prophet Samuel. 45. The translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek, spreading Jewish ideas. 46. The faith of the Israelites became known as 47. A person thought to be instructed by God is a 48. refused to worship Babylonian gods and was thrown into the lion s den. 49. lived in the desert, praying for God to deliver them from the Romans. 50. founded a school that became a center for Torah studies. 51. Ezra was a scribe who guided the writing of the 52. The wise sayings of Solomon were written down and are called 53. They defeated the Chaldeans and conquered Babylon. Sixth Grade Social Studies Page 5

6 54. Who led the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Sinai Desert? 55. Who wrote many of the Psalms? 56. The Jews met here on the Sabbath to pray and discuss their religion. 57. Food prepared according to Jewish dietary laws is called 58. The idea that the law should apply to everybody equally is called the 59. Who was the king who defeated the Persians to become ruler of Judah. 60. The fought the Romans for freedom and drove them out of Jerusalem in A.D Which of the following did Athenian soldiers promise to do in their oath? 62. Who became popular by giving land to landless farmers? 63. Why did Xerxes want to conquer Greece? 64. Which of these did the Mycenaeans learn from the Minoans? Sixth Grade Social Studies Page 6

7 65. At what age could Spartan men return to their homes? 66. The time around 600 B.C. is called the Dark Age because 67. Early Greeks lived by 68. The Athenian assembly appointed ten generals, who 69. Who could be citizens of Greek city-states? 70. The Greek alphabet was based on which of these alphabets? 71. The Mycenaeans came to Greece from 72. In a direct democracy, who decides government matters? 73. When the Spartans needed room for expansion, they 74. The Minoans made their living as 75. Xerxes was king of Sixth Grade Social Studies Page 7

8 76. The Greeks won the Battle of Salamis because their ships 77. Mycenaeans could pay their taxes in 78. Why was the Delian League began as an alliance? Sixth Grade Social Studies Page 8