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Welcome to the 6th Grade Social Studies Vocabulary Padlet

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Welcome to the 6th Grade Social Studies Vocabulary Padlet

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This is a great study tool and resources made especially for you! You can view the padlet left to right and up and down. You can enlarge each tile by clicking on it.
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-Mrs. Cousain

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Fresh water needed for fertile soil and farming

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Agriculture + Growing Crops

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a surplus of food is an extra amount of food

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Everyone can have a job besides farming

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leads to unequal societies someone is always at the bottom

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the buying and selling or sometimes bartering of items and goods

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A timeline is a display of the passage of time on a line.
Timelines can be vertical read top to bottom.
Timelines can be horizontal read left to right.

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The most recent events are located at the top. The latest events are at the bottom.

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Horizontal Timelines are read left to right. The earliest events are located all the way to the left and the more recent events to the right.

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Maps show you the location of places in the world
Maps can be political and physical
Features of maps help you interpret the information

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The map title tells you what the map is about

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The compass rose tells you direction on a map

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The Map Key or Legend tells you what the symbols on the map mean

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The map scale shows distance between places on the map

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Shows political boundaries between countries on the map

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shows physical (geographic) features on a map

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Paleolithic Times - 5 Things You Should Know - History for Kids

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Old Stone Age
Men Hunted
Women Gathered
Temporary Homes
Nomadic
Invention of fire

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Permanent Settlement in villages and communities
Farming
Domestication - taming of plant and animal life for human use

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Neolithic Times - 5 Things You Should Know - History for Kids

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People depended on rivers for access to fresh water and fertile soil.

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In places that were dry irrigation was used.
Irrigation is the process of bringing fresh water to dry land for the purpose of farming

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Farming led to the development of civilization

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Farming led to the development of civilization

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When people began to farm they could no longer move around and had to live in settled communities

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People farmed so much that a surplus of food was produce.

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Due to the surplus of food, people had other time to do other things. Eventually people had jobs other than farming. This is called specialization.

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People put value on the work that others did in society. Society became divided into social classes.

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The earliest people migrated out from Africa

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Mesopotamians settled near the Tigris & Euphrates Rives. They depended on these rivers for fresh water and fertile soil

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Sumer was the first civilization in history.

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Temples build to worship different gods and goddesses.

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The world's first written language. Made by using a stick to press into a soft clay tablet that would harden as it would dry. Led to our modern day alphabet.

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Each civilization in Mesopotamia acted as a city-state. A city-state is a city that acts like a country. It has it's own rulers, laws, tradition and religion

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Hammurabi's Code was the first set of written laws in the world.
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Egyptians depended on the Nile River for fresh water and fertile soil for growing crops.

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Egypt is located in the middle of a desert. The desert acts as a barrier protecting Egypt from enemies

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Deserts also isolated Egypt making trade difficult.

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Egyptians built the pyramids which were used a tombs for pharaohs (Egyptian Kings).

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Egyptian writing used a mix of symbols and pictures

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Paper made from the reed plant

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Egyptian social classes were similar to Mesopotamia.

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Egyptians and Mesopotamians traded with each other. They did this because each civilization need resources from the other. This called interdependence.

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Cultural Diffusion is the spreading or sharing of culture.

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one of the seven continents

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a country on the continent of Asia

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the river was used for fertile soil for farming and growing crops

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border between India & China they provide protection from enemies and isolation making trade difficult

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earliest cities in the Indus River Valley

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high functioning; very intelligent

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a religion brought to India by the Ayrans

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social class system tied to religion and race

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the belief in many gods

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the belief in living lives one after another

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the sum of all the good and good deeds that someone has done in their lives
Good karma would let you be reincarnated in a higher caste
Bad karma would let you be reincarnated in a lower caste

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The Worst System Ever :- Hindu Caste System

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founder of Buddhism

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the spiritual goal of Buddhism

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heaven - the end of suffering and the reincarnation cycle

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It rejects the caste system completely

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The Similarities and Differences between Hinduism and Buddhism

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Buddhism has no god or goddess to worship

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a country in East Asia

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used for fresh water and fertile soil for farming

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a natural barrier providing both protection from enemies and isolation making trade and cultural diffusion difficult.

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a natural barrier providing protection from enemies and isolation making trade difficult

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1st dynasty

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2nd dynasty - doubled the size of Shang

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Used to help tell the future and get guidance from ancestors. These were the first examples of Chinese writing.

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Both ancient and modern Chinese practice ancestor worship. People asked the ancestors for guidance, good luck and advice.

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Zhou rulers claim that the gods were displeased with the Shang and had given them (the Zhou) the authority to rule

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the Zhou doubled the territory that the Shang had by winning wars (conquest) using metal weapons [Check the maps under Dynasty Timeline]