6th Grade Review

Key People
explanation of why each one is important

Topic

5 significant achievements
explanation of why each one is significant

Government and Economic Systems

Social Hierarchy and name and explain the type of government

Religions
explain the main religion(s) and how they affected society

Summary
1 paragraph that summarizes all of the information to the left and adds any missing points

Early Man

Mary Leakey and her husband Louis Leakey made a really important discovery. Mary had found bones that were more than 1.5 million years old. They found an Australopithecus, one of the first ancestors who lived in the past. Donald Johanson was one to find LUCY. Now this was one of the bigger discoveries, LUCY was one of the first remains that showed that ancestors could walk on two legs. LUCY was a hominid, she could walk on two legs And 40% of her body was found, that is the most complete Australopithecus ever found. Turkana Boy: Turkana Boy was a Homo erectus, founded in 1984 Lake Turkana, Kenya. Turkana Boy looked like a human, standing (5'3") this was another big discovery because he was nearly complete skeleton.

Mesopotamia (Sumerians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians)

1) ur-nina took the throne after meslem and found new dynasty at langash 2) eannatom-had been

The early men were hunters and also gatherers. They needed animals and plants for food. It was the main thing that they ate. They never stopped moving for their food. But then they learned how to farm, then they started the slash and burn way of farming. When the ice age came, the early human had to adapt. They adapted in many ways. Some where the cloths they wore, domesticating plats, and animals, building mud brick houses, and setting up permanent settlements. They even started to specialize in activities like weaving clothes, sports, hunting, farming, and more! Writing-This was very
important because writing is used every day by everybody. We cannot live without writing. If you

Early man are who started EVERYTHING. They developed the ability to hunt, and get all sorts of food for them to keep them alive. They learned how to grow food, plants. They didnt sell anything just yet because it was just the beginning they didnt care about money back then just yet. Theyd find food for their families so they wouldnt be starved. They werent into anything political yet, their wasnt any differences it was peaceful.

The Early Humans had little trace of religion and people have discovered burial sites with artifacts with food in them but in the stone age they probably believed in gods and goddesses or believed in element gods like a water god or a fire god.It affected these societies by bringing people together and forming bonds which brings more people to the tribe or society which more people come in and they lead to states or empires.Some people still believe in the same beliefs as the Early humans today and practice it.
Ancient Mesopotamia religion evolved around gods and goddesses. There were many gods and goddesses, but there

the political and economic system of Mesopotamia was very different then it is now.First of all it was not a country but our

ur-ninas grandson that also raised power of the langash 3) meselem king of kishconquered all southern babylonia 4) urlumna ruler of umma - had destroyed sancturaries 5) hammurabi - made a law code made it so he could regulate the realations of his people

know how to write than you have a high percentage of getting a job. The Wheel- This is very important because once again we use the wheel every day for almost everything, which sounds important. The Plow-This is not really important in these days, but it was back then. The plow made farming much easier and faster. Make-Up and JewelryThis is important because again people us it all the time for looking good and making good movies. Jewelry is a form of money which is important. Clock- This is very important because we use clocks to tell time so we are not late to anything.

present day had used the word that had come from the Greeks who had used it to designate an area. Also they had a lack of national identity the early Mesopotamians had no national identity in fact during one of the courses we have found that few people have any sense of truly national identity.The economics on the other hand are different they didn't have a lot of money to buy and sell things. But they had found other ways to make a profit and have a good way to live.But in the end they had all found ways to live and make a profit they ended up getting stronger and trying to stay out of all the unnecessary wars.

were some that were more special. Like the god of the sky which ruled over all gods and goddesses, the god of fresh water, the god of the sun & justice, the god of the moon and the goddesses of love, war and fertility. The people of Mesopotamia worship and believe in those gods and goddesses

Ancient Egypt / Kush

Queen Shanakhdakheto was the first women to rule an empire by herself. She ruled from 170 B.C. to 150 B.C. Shabaka rule was the golden age for Nubian authority of Egypt also Shabaka made many additions to Egyptian temples.

Kush was a Neighbor to Egypt, When Kush lost control of Egypt Many people would say to them that they had to become powerful and rich again so they began to increase agriculture and trade. After a few centuries, Kush had become what they wanted to be, rich and powerful. People from Kush would send many materials to Egypt. Their relationship was not that peaceful. And when

Theocracy is a government by the religious leaders. Egyptian religion was based on polytheism, or worship deities, except for during the reign of Akenaton. There were about 2000 goddesses as part animal and part human. Horus is a sky god that has a head of a hawk, and a body of a human.

Ramses The Great, as he was know, ruled Egypt for sixtyseven years and during his ruling the Egyptian Empire was expanded the military conquests and the treaties they made. Queen nefertiti is know for her beauty. Nefertiti was more famous than her husband, she ruled along side Akhenaten during the eighteenth dynasty (15501292 B.C.) Akhenaten was a pharaoh of egypt in the 18th dynasty. akhenaten is famous for his relious reform he tired to impose on egypt was that he believed in one god.

Kush economy began to grow more and more there army grew stronger Egypt was getting frightened that Kush would go to war with them

Ancient India

1. Aryabhata was the first astronomer of India. He wrote a book which was called The Aryabhatiya in the book it talked about the astronomical

1.Earliest known precise celestial calculations they made math equations for the Earth's orbit round the sun.

In Ancient India their government is ran by their religion of Hinduism . To run this government they have a caste system that helps sort out the people

The biggest religion of India was Hinduism; Hinduism states the religious traditions and ideas that have developed in India. It is the oldest

In Ancient India there were a lot of things going on there. During that time there were people who made history by finding new ways of doing math

and mathematical ideas. 2. Ashoka was a king of ancient India he won several battles to make his kingdom bigger. Once the war of Kalinga was over he turned to Buddhism. 3. Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most known leaders he led the fight for Indian independence from the British Empire. 4. Chandra Gupta I was the Founder of the imperial Gupta dynasty. He increased his power and territory by marrying 308 Princess Kumaradevi of the liccahvi tribe.

2. Astronomical time spans They would talk, think, write about things that haven't happened yet,/ they would think outside the box. 3.Theory of creation of the universe they talk about the world not being created , and time has and will never stop. 4.Earth goes round the sun Aryabhata, it so happens, was apparently quite sceptical of the widely held doctrines about eclipses and also about the belief that the Sun goes round the Earth. As early as the sixth century, he talked of the diurnal motion of the earth and the appearance of the Sun going round it. 5.Binary System of number representation// a mathematician named Pingala invented the "Number System"

on top and the lower class people. The Brahmans, the top caste, are in charge of the religion and are usually priests. The other 3 casts; Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Sudras, depend on the Brahmans guidelines to help them understand there expectation and stay pure. They had to follow rules like: staying in the cast they were born in, and only marrying people in their cast. People who didn't follow these rules were considered Harijans, untouchable.

religion and it has no founder. Buddhist practice meditation and it helps them change them self in order for them to grow the makings of awareness, kindness, and wisdom. Buddhist believes were honesty, non-violence, and compassion, it spread around India to Central Asia. The Buddha's Four Noble Truths were1. Life is suffering. 2. People suffer because of desire. 3. The only way not to suffer is to have no desires. 4. The Eightfold Path is the way to end suffering and end the Cycle of reincarnation.

or astronomy, or by being war heroes or by. There were also a lot of achievements like thinking outside the box and finding ways to understand the Earths. They also had a caste system that was a big part of their government and social lives. Also, one of the biggest things about India was their religions, which was the thing that ran the government and inspired some to make history and achieve new things. To learn more please read the things on the left, or visit the web sites at the bottom of the section.

Shi Huangdi- He
Ancient China
united China and was the first emperor of China. He was the emperor who created the first feudalism country made of several people. To make his power stronger, he made

The Great Wall of China: it took all of the people a really long time to build, and when it was finally built it protected the

One of Ancient China most popular religions was being Buddhist. Buddhism was founded in C. 5th century B.C.E. The origin of Buddhism was founded in India. As many as 350,000,000 people

a lot of policies. Shi Huangdi started building the Great Wall of China to protect China from invaders. Confucius He is one of the most known Chinese philosophers. He was a political figure and a teacher. His philosophies were grouped to form the philosophical system known as Confucianism. He was born in 551 BC and died in 479 BC. Confucius taught about morality and how people should function inside a society. The teachings were based on Chinese traditions. Laozi A Chinese philosopher who is considered by most to be the founder of Taoism. It is thought that he lived during the 4th century BC. He wrote the Tao Te Ching (the basis for the philosophies of Taoism. Marco Polo- He was a merchant traveler. His travels were recorded in a book, Livers Des Merveilles Du Monde, that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China. On his travel through Asia he met a guy named Kublai Khan. Kublai Khan- He was a Mongolian Leader, who conquered China and ruled it successfully.

Chinese Empire from the Mongolian Invasion The Silk Road: it helped bring goods they didn't have and ideas they didn't have The Terra Cotta Army: a collection of terracota sculptures represented the armies of Qin Shi Huang, it was said that they were there to protect the Emperor in his afterlife Paper: Hemp fiber and silk were used to make paper but the quality was far from what they wanted to see, they started to make it better, and they used it a lot, it has become so important because we still use it until this day Printing Technique: Chinese people invented engraved printing around 600 A.D. This was an important role in the Song Dynasty

follow it. There was no particular founder in Buddhism. Buddhism being the meaning of many things in particular being known for The awaken one. Even the fact that Buddhism was founded in India. Buddhism is most popular in places like China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar and many other places. The basic teachings of Buddhism were Enlightenment, Wisdom, Compassion, and Mindfulness. These teachings were supposed to improve basic daily lives of the Ancient Chinese people. Confucianism, not a real religion is ethical philosophical system, which developed from Confucius thoughts and later was treated as a kinds of many beliefs to educate common people. Confucianism has many worldwide influences. In many countries and regions of world such as the UK, USA, branches of Confucius.

Rulers before him were land-hungry and were apathetic (unfeeling, not interested) to the conquered people. He, however, adopted Chinese manners and treated the people different.

but it was clearly visible that it was starting to fail, but it was brought up again during the reign of the emperor, and it became very important, so important that we still use it until this day.

1000-922 B.C.
Kings David and Solomon establish a Hebrew kingdom. Solomon builds the first temple. 332 B.C. Alexander the Great conquers Jerusalem. 1500s The region comes under Ottoman Turkish rule.

Hebrews/Israelites

1917 The Balfour Declaration gives British approval to the effort to create a Jewish homeland. After World War I, the area comes under British control, which allows some Jewish settlement. 1948 On May 14, the State of Israel is proclaimed. David Ben-Gurion is its first prime minister. Neighboring Arab countries declare war, but

Hebrews religion is called Judaism. This is something that came or appeared in the year 20001500 BC at Southwest Asia. Hebrew was a hard to learn but they developed it and it became major influence later. Hebrew is a part of the Christian Bible. There was a man named Abraham, He was the leader of the Hebrews and he was very important in the Bible because it said God promised to lead Abraham to a new land and make his descendants into a mighty nation. That means that God wanted him to lead the Hebrews to success and make new land and start a new religion. Later on Abraham moved from Mesopotamia and in Canaan on the Mediterranean Sea to Egypt and it got very popular there and it keeps growing. The leader of

Israel survives.

Egypt, Pharaoh .He thought that Hebrew was going to take over Egypt .But Pharaoh didnt want that to happen so the Egyptian people made the Hebrews Slaves.

The five famous people from

ancient Greece
are, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euclid and King Alexander the Great. Plato is important because he is a Greek philosopher. He began his philosophical career under the guidance of Socrates. Socrates is important because was a Greek philosopher who is credited with laying the fundamentals of modern Western philosophy. He is known for creating Socratic irony and the Socratic Method (elenchus). Elenchus- an argument that refutes another argument by proving the contrary of its conclusion. Aristotle is important because he was also a philosopher but he was a scientist to. He

Ancient Greece

Greece was one of the most early civilizations so, they had an advantage. this advantage was being known for technology first (or doing this before others) one, for example was having a religion, the first religion. another great achievement was making columns for building! we still use it to this day for example, we have columns on Washington D.C. Abraham Lincoln's memorial it has columns for decoration on front of it. it is one agricultural building structure that will not be forgotten.

Write a paragraph that explains the political and economic systems of your civilization. Greece is the birthplace of politics as an art and democracy as a form of government. Greece is the birthplace of politics as an art and democracy as a form of government.The economic and social structure of Greece, including the colonies it sent out around the Mediterranean, had many things in common with other agricultural civilizations. It particularly resembled other civilizations in which an invading, warlike group settled down to agriculture.

Another famous unique creation is the Olympic games. Greek people found this very entertaining to watch and will be use to this day by Americans! once more fact that greece was very talented for an early civilization. theaters where the most famous at this time due to the fact of 15,000 people just to watch a

Greece is known for their great and first existing religion. the Greek people where thought to have the very first religion recorded in the world. the name for the Greek religion is Hellenism, which had a polytheism theme to it (which mean more than one god). there where more religions in Greece at the time known as ''cults'', but the main religion was Hellenism. this religion had the gods known as Zeus,Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Hera, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, Artemis, Hephaestus. eventually Greece discovered other parts of the world, and their religions followed, this is how Rome and Parthia empire caught wind of this. each god had their duties which led to having their own myths like Zeus the king of gods and lighting. the mythology's behind Hellenism is to give a lesson, like the minotaur. it starts of with

believed that every problem had an objective solution. Euclid is important because Euclid taught geometry in Alexandria and founded a mathematics school there He wrote about optics, the heavens, the scale, the theory of numbers and also about music. And last but not least is King Alexander the Great. King Alexander was very important because Alexander the Great was a Greek king who conquered most of the region of the Mediterranean.He is considered one of the greatest military commanders in history. 1.) Romulus: Romulus was an important person in Roman history because he founded Ancient Rome after killing Remus - his brother- in a time period around 753BC. 2.) Remus: Remus and Romulus are both significant figures of the Roman foundation, after quarreling over where to found the new city, Romulus kills Remus and founds the new city, which he later names

play. this was followed by Rome, Europe followed, then the world gained wind of this and borrowed this idea. this is where some traits of agriculture arose. to learn more on Greek achievements, the gift of greece is a good website to visit.

this man who was to give his most prized winning cows to sacrifice every year to the god, but he tricked the god. soon the god realized and punished him by having his wife mate with his prized bull thus the minotaur was born. the lesson behind this is don't lie or things such as this would happen. once more, Greece was and is known for their first great religion on earth this is what makes greece valuable in history.

Ancient Rome

One of the achievements of Ancient Rome was that they had twelve tables that everyone had to follow. They did this because they all wanted to be ruled by one person each year so they elected a ruler each year. This achievement was important because everyone had to follow them and it was

Ancient Rome's politics was sorted into different groups of people. The first group contains the consuls, who were the chief executives (and also the most powerful). The second group contains the senate, who wrote the laws. The third and final group contained the praetors, who were judges. The emperor was only an icon, and didn't have are real power. (Julius Caesar was killed because he gained too

The main religion of Ancient Rome was Christianity in which they believed in Jesus was the son of God. They were taught about Jesus and the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They believed in the resurrection of Jesus in which he woke up from the dead after his crucifixion.

Rome, after himself. 3.) Julius Caesar was a Roman general who made a pact with Pompey and Crassus, who later helped him to become elected in 59 BC for consul. He was assassinated by the senators who feared he had gained too much power, or would gain too much. 4.) Constantine: Constantine was the one who unified the divided Roman Empire, he also built Constantinople, meaning the city of Constantine. 5.) Augustus was known as the first emperor, his real name is Octavian but he was known as Augustus, for his achievements, he was known to have avenged the death of Julius Caesar, with Mark Antony before they had the fallout.

done so that they would have a better life. Roman Architecture was also one of the important achievements because this how they built there cities and they created many things to have better homes. They would also use arches to help them build and keep all the buildings up. It was important because they created many things that could help them have great homes and buildings that's why they had architecture. Another achievement that Ancient Rome had was that they had provinces which ever areas that they had conquered over the years. They were very important to Rome because of what they had and did. It was a important achievement because this gave them more

much power). The patricians, who were nobles, and the plebeians, who were common people. The currency used in Rome were coins. coins ranged from small bronze coins (less valuable) to large gold coins (more valuable). One of the reasons Rome fell, was because currency became more valuable.

power, taxes, food, and other resources that they might have not had. Another achievement was their Rome Republic they had Senate, Consul, and Assembly this would control and they would make decisions in Ancient Rome. All of them had different jobs and had their own responsible for them positions. This achievement was important because this is what control Ancient Rome and they all had to do the job they had. One another great achievement was that they had improvements they changed many things like people would believe in gods, made had homes, and the center of town was big. They had many improvements that made it better but some were unfair. This was a significant

achievement because it made Ancient Rome a better place and it change how many people would live.