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MCAS Review Grade 6 Social Studies - People - Part B

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ArchaeologistsScientists who study very old remains in order to learn about the past?
AnthropologistsScientists who study people and their culture or way of living?
GeologistsScientists who study the earth itself?
Food GatherersPeople who once lived by searching for fruits, nuts, seeds, and edible leaves?
HuntersPeople who once got their food by deliberately killing animals?
ShamanAn ancient medicine man who could talk to and influence spirits?
SumeriansPeople who lived in southern Mesopotamia who learned to write, lived in cities, and built huge temples?
HammurabiThis man's code was "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"?
Hebrews or ChristiansWhat ancient people believed in only one god?
MosesWho led the freed Hebrews out of Egypt?
David or SolomonName at least one Hebrew king?
PhoeniciansWho were the greatest navigators in the ancient world?
PharaohAnchient Egyptian kings were called what title?
DynastyA line of kings belonging to the same family is a?
RaEgyptian sun god's name?
Khufu or CheopsHe built the largest pyramid in Egypt?
TutankhamenHoward Carter discovered this boy-king's tomb in the Valley of the Kings?
HomerWho wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
TyrantA person in ancienct Greece who seized power illegally--could be good or bad?
Spartan SlavesWho were the Helots?
PersiansAn eastern people who tried to conquer the Greek city-states?
XerxesPersian son of King Darium who attacked Greece with 600 ships and 180,000 men?
Spartan king who fought at ThermopylaeWho was Leonidas, and where did he die?
ZeusChief Greek god of the sky?
PericlesLeader of Athens for 30 years who strengthened its walls and give it a Golden Age.

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