Sixth Grade Social Studies

What were tombs for Pharaohs called?

The culture of a society develops as the people respond to the challenges of their what?

Whose tomb did Howard Carter find completely intact?

The religion that developed during the Roman Empire was.....

How do you determine latitude?

The longest river in the world is the ..........

Name the 3 parts of an essay.

From what civilization did we borrow democracy, jury, literature such as fables and tragedies?

The most common land form in Greece is.....

To determine longitude you need to......

Egypt is considered part of what?

The climate of most of the Middle East can be described as ..............

This system was developed to provide law and order in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire

What are the Intermediate Directions?

The usual way of doing something within a culture is a definition of ........

North, South, East, and West are referred to as what?

Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates are all what?

The name of a government where the citizens make the laws and choose the leaders is what?

What concept do the 3 religions of the Middle East have in common?

The power to veto laws is an example of what within a government?

These stories have animal characters and teach a lesson, what are they?

Many nations of the Middle East have huge profits from this resource.

Knights were supposed to live by this code.....

The Nile provided Egyptians with these three things.....

Relying on each other for wants and needs is the definition of ........

N. America, S. America, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, Australia are what?

What was the main purpose of the crusades?

Monotheism is the the belief in what ?

What civilization did we borrow the ideas of paved roads, a republic, lawyers, and post office

A condition of being totally alone and away from others is called what?

The branches of our government are.....

Why did early civilizations begin in river valleys?

What is the highest mountain in the world?

What will you study next year in 7th grade?

One power of the Judicial Branch of government is what?

What did the Nile, Indus, Tigris-Euphrates, and the Huang Ho River Valleys have in common?

Lords, Knights, serfs and freemen were all types of people who lived during the.....

The modern country that Sumerian ruins are located in is what?

The semi-dry plains of the Middle East are called what?

The executive branch has the power to ........

To explain the events and things of the natural world, the Greeks wrote....

What is technology?

This religion is based on the the teaching of Muhammad.

Who did we adopt the idea of the Olympic games from?

What continent is completely in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres?

Many of the letters of our alphabet come from the writing system of the .......

The canal that shortens the distance between Europe and Asia is called .......

What was an important invention that improved land transportation for the Sumerians?

What are the two rivers of Sumer?

What is Polytheism?

A society finds this very important.......

The Legislative Branch has the power to do what?

Cuneiform was the Sumerian system of.....

The ways of doing things a group of people have developed to survive in a environment is what?

A human group that lives together as a community and whose culture is unique in some ways?

What belief was central to Egyptian life and religion?

What are the five oceans?

The word that best describes water supplies in the Middle East is what?

In order to have afterlife, what had to be done to an Egyptian's body?

Food, Water, Clothing, Shelter, Protection/Safety are known as what?