WHAT I LEARNED
IN SOCIAL
STUDIES THIS
YEARFROM A TO Z.
2012-2013
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6th Grade End of Year SS A-Z Fact Book
You will be completing an end of year activity to show me what you have learned. You will be
completing, an A-Z Fact Book. I have given you a list of POSSIBLE words you may use.
These are NOT the only words that you can use. You may choose any vocabulary word,
topic/idea we have discussed this entire year.
The topics/units we have completed include:
Timelines/Chronology
Geography and Map Skills
Early River Civilizations- Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and China
World Religions- Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism
World Government- Democracy, Dictatorship, Monarchy, and Theocracy
Economics
Resources
You may choose to use the Internet, the blue World textbooks (river civilizations), the red People,
Places, and Change textbook (geography and map skills), and/or my teacher website. ALL of the
unit folders on MY teacher website will be available for you to use.
Directions
You will need to include a term/word for each letter of the alphabet. You are to have 2 facts; one
may be a definition of the term related to our study. The other fact can be one that explains why it
was/is important to our study of history. Facts must be written in complete sentences and be
grammatically correct.
Word List
A.D
Democracy
Hieroglyphics
Ahmose
dharma
Himalayas
artifact
Dictatorship
Hinduism
B.C.
drought
Huang River
B.C.E.
dynasty
Indus River
Babylon
economy
interdependence
Buddhism
Eightfold Path
irrigation
C.E.
emperor
Islam
canal
empire
Judaism
caste system
erosion
karma
Christianity
Euphrates River
Khufu
city-state
expedition
latitude
civilization
famine
levee
code of law
Fertile Crescent
loess
compass
Four Noble Truths
longitude
Confucianism
goods
Lower Egypt
Confucius
Grand School
Mandate of Heaven
Cuneiform
Great Wall of China
Memphis
Dead Sea Scrolls
Hammurabi
Menes
delta
Harappa
Menes
demand
Hatshepsut
Mesopotamia
Middle Kingdom
Quran
subcontinent
Mohenjo-Daro
quota
Sumer
Monarchy
reed
supply
monk
reincarnation
surplus
monotheism
Rosetta Stone
Ten Commandments
Moses
Sabbath
Terra Cotta
New Kingdom
Sanskrit
Nile River
Sargon
Nile River
scale
nobles
scarcity
North China Plain
scribes
Old Kingdom
seismograph
opportunity cost
services
oracle bones
Shi Huangdi
pharaoh
Shiva
physical map
Siddhartha Gautama
plateau
Silk Road
political map
slavery
polytheism
Social Pyramid
province
specialization
pyramids
sphinx
Qin Dynasty
steppe
Soldiers/Army
Thebes
Tigris River
timelines
Torah
Trade
Tutankhamen
unification
Upper Egypt
Valley of the Kings
Vedas
Weather
Wudi
Xianyang
Yellow River
ziggurat