6th Grade Social Studies Post Assessment Review Answer Sheet
Chapter 1-5, 7-9
1)Historians read letters and diaries from the past to find out what happened and why.
2)Prehistory is the time period before written history and ancient history is the period of history when writing began.
3)Archaeologists study artifacts of the past, geographers study features of the earth such as human made features like a road, and historians are recorders of the past.
4)The spear thrower allowed the hominids to hunt animals from a distance and for safety.
5)Training wild animals for the use of humans is known as domesticating.
6)A stable food supply was created with the addition of farming or agriculture in the Neolithic Age.
7)Trade is the exchange or buying and selling of items and the communities could now trade their excess crops for other resources with the invention of farming and a stable food supply.
8)The Sumerians settled near the Tigris and Euphrates River when first starting a civilization.
9)Moats surrounded ancient Sumerian cities to protect from the cities from invaders.
10) Plows turned the soil to ensure the crops had new dirt for the nutrients and this helped to create a stable food supply.
11)The 3 environmental factors that determine where the ancient Egyptians lived were water, topography, and vegetation and people would settle near the 3 factors because they were needed to in order to survive.
12) The longest river in the world that was important to the ancient Egyptian and Kush Civilizations was the Nile River and civilizations settled there due to the need for water to bathe, drink, food resources, travel, and trade.
13)The benefit of being near a desert is it offered natural protection from invaders.
14) Howard Carter found King Tut’s tomb in 1922 and he found gold inside his tomb as well as a chariot which is a two wheeled vehicle that some believe may have killed King Tut which helped archeologists understand Ancient Egypt.
15)The social classes in Egypt were organized in a social pyramid and the pyramid was used because the least amount of people was in the highest classes and more people were located in the bottom classes of the pyramid, such as slaves.
16)Women had more rights in Ancient Egypt than in other parts of the world at the time including the right to own property and divorce.
Chapter 11, 15, 25-27
17)Judaism is different from other ancient religions because of its belief in one God instead of many gods (Monotheistic and not Polytheistic)
18)Gandhi was a famous Hindu leader who was a big supporter of using nonviolence to solve India’s problems and used it to secure independence from Britain.
19)Karma is all the good and evil a person has done in their past lives and it affected your place in the caste system because it was determined based on how you lived in your previous life how you were reincarnated.
20)Timelines of ancient civilizations go from the left to the right in the BCE period counting down to the year 0.
21)The Greeks did not travel on land because the mountains made it difficult.
22)Due to the lack of land, most Greek city-states acquired the food and resources they needed by trading.
23)The ancient Greeks lived in isolated communities or city-states due to the geography of Ancient Greece, including mountains.
24)A monarchy is a form of government where the power is in the hands of one person, who is usually a king that inherited power.
25)Tyranny differs from monarchy because a tyrant is not a lawful ruler, usually taking power by force and a tyrant’s son usually does not inherit power.
26) Athens is the birthplace of democracy where citizens had a say in the government.
Open Ended
1)It is important to be built near water sources because of:
- Drinking
- Bathing
- Food Sources such as fishing and helpful to grow crops
- Travel
- Trade
- Useful as a defense against invaders
2)Monarchy:1. Power is in the hands of one person, usually a king who inherits the power, 2. Citizenshave little to no say in government, 3. The king makes the laws and passes the laws, 4. King decides every aspect of life, 5. Kings serve for life until they die
Democracy: 1. Power is in the hands of all people who are citizens, 2. The people or elected representatives are the ones who create the laws and pass them, 3. People are elected to their office and chosen by the citizens, 4. Most representatives only can serve for certain amount of time (example is President for a maximum of 8 years)