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MCAS Review Grade 6 Social Studies - Events


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Ice AgeThe time when the earth was covered with giant glacier?
PrehistoryThe earliest period of time--all the years before the development of writing?
Stone AgeThe first tools were made of stone, so the first prehistoric age is called the ?
New Stone AgeDuring this stone age period people used finely shaped and highly polished stone tools?
FarmingThe development of agriculture led to a totally different kind of life for humans. What is agriculture?
ExodusWhen the Hebrews were freed from Egyptian slavery the event was called the ?
FloodWhat the Nile would do as soon as Sirius the star appeared?
For AfterlifeWhy did the Egyptians paint all over their tombs?
Trojan WarWhat was did Homer describe in the Iliad?
Sparta and GreeceThe Peloponnesian War was a war mainly between which two city-states of Greece?
OlympicsA Greek festival held every four years in honor of Zeus?
PunicName the three wars fought between Rome and Carthage?
Chariot RacesA sporting event that took place in the Circus Maximus of Rome?
Battle at ThermopylaeThe event in which 300 Spartans and other Greeks were killed by the Persian King Xerxes?
Battle at MarathonWhen Persians first landed in Greece, they were defeated on this plain in what battle?
Eruption of Mt. VesuviusThe reason Pompeii and Herculanean disappeared?
Persians invaded GreeceAround 500 B.C. what caused the Greek city-states to temporarily unite?
Stone AgeThe first state of human life began about 2 million years ago and is called?
Punic WarsWars between Carthage and Rome were called?
Peloponnesian WarsThese internal Greek wars weakened Greece as a whole opening it to conquest by outsiders?