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Exam study Guide-World Culture
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History
6th Grade
12/16/2007

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longitude
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distance east and west of the Prime Meridian measured in degrees
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compass rose
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Symbol showing where cardinal directions are positioned
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diagram
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A drawing that shows how an item is made or how it works
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political map
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shows names and boundaries of countries, cities, and places
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absolute location
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where one line of longitude crosses one line of latitude
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Prime Meridian
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0 degrees longitude, cuts the world in half or into hemispheres
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Equator
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0 degrees latitude. cuts the world in half or into hemispheres
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chart
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numbers and facts are presented in an organized way
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latitude
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North and south of the equator, measured in degrees and parallel to each other
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circle graph
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helps to show the whole of something divided into parts
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physical map
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shows landforms and water features
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Global Positioning System
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Helps locate a place based on coordinates broadcast by satellites
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Place
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The 5 themes of geography are Region, Location, Place, Human Environmental Interaction, and movement. The theme that tells what something is like is
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nomads
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People who regularly move from place to place
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Paleolithic
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The time of the Old Stone Age
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Neolithic
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The time of the New Stone Age
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Hieroglyphics
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System of writing using thousand of picture symbols used by the Egyptions
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Mesopotamia
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Called the Cradle of Civilazation
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pyramid
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Huge stone structure built by Egyptians to serve as a tomb
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dynasty
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line of rulers from the same family
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epic
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long poem that tells the story of a hero
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pharaoh
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all-powerful king in Egypt
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Satrapies
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the name of the 20 provinces of Persia
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Alexander the Great
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Built one of the greatest cities of the ancient world and named it after himself
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Zoroastrianism
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Religion with both a good and bad god
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tragedy
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drama with an unhappy ending
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comedy
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drama with a happy ending
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Hellenistic Era
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A time when Greek culture, art, architecture and literature spread throughout the non-Greek world
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Earth's physical and human feature
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The five themes of geography help explain the components of the ?
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waterways
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The geographic factor that had the greatest effect on the growth of modern industry
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Environmental Interaction
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The geographic factor that tells how people and places are linked together is Human/
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unreasoned emotional judgment about people and events
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The term bias describes an ?
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truthfulness
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What best describes credibility is ?
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Infinite/unlimited
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? years can be represented on a timeline
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primary source
Definition
A source that is the first hand piece of evidence is called a ?
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secondary source
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Our textbook is a ?
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artisans
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Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth or pottery
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Hammurabi
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? wrote a legal code that covered most area of daily life
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cuneiform
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The Sumerian writing system
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Chaldeans
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The ? built a great army to protect their land from invasion and they were the first large army to use iron weapons
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trade
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? helped spread ideas around the world
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Jacob
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? raised 12 sons, who became the 12 tribes on Israel
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Judaism
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The faith of the Israelites became known as ?
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Moses
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? led the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Sinai Desert
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Book of the Dead
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One of the most important manuscripts in ancient Egypt was the ?
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alphabet
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The Phoenicians idea that was passed from Greeks to Romans and is something we still use every day is the ?
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Religion
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? shaped the Jewish way of life
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King Khufu
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The Great Pyramid was built for ?
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Diaspora
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The term that describes the Jews being scattered to different places is ?
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Dark Ages
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Time in Greek history where there was little food and everything stopped
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academics and government
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The Athenian society focused on ??
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city-states
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The Greek ? rebelled against King Darius and the Persians
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Spartans
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The ? joined forces with Athens to fight the Persians
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Homer
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? wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad
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Socrates
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? was sentenced to death because of his teachings
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conquering and bribing
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Philip II got some Greek city-states to join him by ?? them
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all the people
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In a direct democracy, ? decide government matters
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