th 6 Grade Social Studies Terms and Topics

th 6 Grade Social Studies Terms and Topics Review Presentation 04/27/12

3 Branches of Government Make Laws Approve Treaties Override veto's Enforces Laws Foreign relations (treaties) Veto Bills Interpret laws Can declare laws unconstitutional (judicial review)

3 Levels of Government • National • State • Local

5 Themes of Geography • The 5 Big Ideas in Geography: » Location » Place » Region » Movement » Human Environmental Interaction

Location • Where a location can be found. – Absolute location: where something is exactly. – Relative location: where something is in relationship to another location.

Movement • The theme of Geography the explains how people, goods, and ideas get from one location to another.

Region • Theme of Geography that defines locations that have characteristics in common. They can be physical, like deserts, mountains, beaches, or cultural, like ethnic regions, or political regions.

Human Environmental Interaction • The theme of Geography that describes how people adapt to, change, and/or use the environment around them.

Place • The theme of Geography that describes all the physical and human features that are found in a specific location.

Age of Exploration • Age of Exploration, was the period of time starting in the 15 th Century and continuing into the 17 th Century, during which Europeans explored the world by ocean searching for trading partners and trade goods

Artifact • An artifact can be any object made or modified by humans which then tells what those people were like.

Agriculture The raising of domesticated animals and plants to provide a steady supply of food. (i. e. : farming)

Agricultural Revolution When a civilization recognized the ability to stay in one place and survive from the planted ground. As a result we see…. • Growth of the family • Towns and cities • Domesticated animals • New technology

Bamboo The plant that the Ancient Chinese used to make paper.

BC/AD Timeline A graphic organizer or outline that illustrates events in chronologic al order.

Census • A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. Information can be used for taxation, political, and the military for example.

Christian Holy Book The Bible

Christopher Columbus Born August October 25 -31 1451 Died May 20, 1506 outside Valladolid, Spain • was a Genoese (Genoa, Italy) navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean for Queen Isabella of Spain —led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere.

Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Columbian Exchange

Class System • Groups of people having the same social, economic, or educational status.

City-States • The territory of the city-state corresponds to the city limits and has one government that is independent from any other government entity, i. e. Athens

Civilizations • A civilization is a society or culture group normally defined as a complex society characterized by the practice of agriculture and settlement in towns and cities.

Code of Hammurabi One of the first known written set of laws in history written by King Hammurabi in Mesopotamia.

Colony / Colonization • A colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a country, empire, or state. • The act of settling a colony is colonization.

Common Elements of Religions • religion is made up of a set of stories, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life.

Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society.

Constitution • A constitution is a set of rules for government—often a written document— that establishes principles of an autonomous political entity. It is the framework for that government.

Continents and Oceans

Crusades • The Crusades were a series of religiondriven military campaigns waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents.

Culture It is the way a civilization of people… • Talk • Sing • Dance • Worship • Recreation …or the way people live.

Language • Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.

Beliefs a statement, principle, or doctrine that a person or group accepts as true.

Traditions • refers to beliefs, objects or customs performed or believed in in the past, originating in it, transmitted through time by being taught by one generation to the next.

The Arts • diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but is most often understood to refer to painting, film, photography, sculpture, and other visual media.

Literature • is the art of written work. The books, articles, and stories we read and write both fiction and nonfiction.

Cuneiform is the one of the world’ first known written languages. This began as pictographs by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.

Currency • A generally accepted medium of exchange.

Delta A delta is formed at the mouth of a river where it flows into a larger body of water.

Democracy A form of government where citizens own the power to rule (Two Types of Democracy) 1. Direct 2. Representative

Direct Democracy • A form of government where all citizens are able to participate in all levels of government. The government in Athens and Town Meetings are examples of Direct Democracy.