Semester Exam Review - 6th Social Studies (TN aligned)

Question 1

What can be found at location 1 on the map?

Accepted Answer

Mediterranean Sea

Question 2

What can be found at location 4 on the map?

Accepted Answer

Red Sea

Question 3

Sumerian religion dictated that only ______________ could speak to the gods.

Accepted Answer

Priests

Question 4

Long, hard workdays, drought and disease are all...

Accepted Answer

...costs of farming.

Question 5

This person was one of the first female pharaohs of Egypt.

Accepted Answer

Hatshepsut

Question 6

Which of the following is a sign of the MOST complex culture?

Accepted Answer

cave paintings

Question 7

Which of the following is associated with life during the Neolithic Era?

Accepted Answer

domestication and agriculture

Question 8

Why would someone say that crops cannot be grown in Southern Mesopotamia?

Accepted Answer

The area looks like a desert.

Question 9

What can be found at location 4 on the map?

Accepted Answer

Black Sea

Question 10

The world's first empire was ________, and it was ruled by _________.

Accepted Answer

The Akkadian Empire, Sargon

Question 11

Which abbreviation would be at the end of Jesus' 17th birthday (during his life)?

Accepted Answer

A.D., C.E.

Question 12

Because farmers were able to create surpluses of food, other citizens could...

Accepted Answer

...make handicrafts like pottery and jewelry,

Question 13

What brought Egypt and Nubia together?

Accepted Answer

trade

Question 14

"Gods control _______________," said the Sumerians.

Accepted Answer

every aspect of life

Question 15

What can be found at location 7 on the map?

Accepted Answer

Persian Gulf

Question 16

How did the development of agriculture lead to permanent settlements?

Accepted Answer

There was no need to follow herds for food.

Question 17

What advancement in technology aided the Phoenicians ability to trade along the Mediterranean?

Accepted Answer

sails

Question 18

Stone age hunter-gatherers lived ________, or small groups they traveled with.

Accepted Answer

Bands

Question 19

What ideas or traditions did Nubian's take from Egypt?

Accepted Answer

gods and pyramids

Question 20

Which year came BEFORE the year 36 B.C.E.?

Accepted Answer

56 B.C.E.

Question 21

What is the purpose of this building?

Accepted Answer

It allowed people to worship.

Question 22

Every pharaoh is believed to be ___________ in human form.

Accepted Answer

Horus

Question 23

Most early religions were _______.

Accepted Answer

polytheistic.

Question 24

Early humans were ______whose survival depended on the availability of wild plants and animals.

Accepted Answer

Hunter-Gatherers

Semester Exam Review - 6th Social Studies (TN aligned)

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Semester Exam Review - 6th Social Studies (TN aligned)

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