6th grade social studies review #3

Mesopotamian farmers developed a system of __________ to control the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Irrigation 
• Cuneiform 
• Aqueducts
• Terraced Farming

What is this called?

• North, South, East, West
• Compass Rose
• A map
• A map key

Before 8000 B.C.E, humans found food by hunting animals. They also gathered nuts and fruits. What practice later replaced hunting and gathering for finding food? 

• building fires
• raising families 
• growing crops
• owning stores 

The Neolithic Revolution refers to the time when early humans-

• masteredfire.
• developed agriculture.
• migrated fromAfrica.
• organized governments

People who follow herds of animals and have no permanent homes are called ____________.

• nomads 
• fishermen 
• merchants 
• domestication

Archaeologists are known for their study of:

• ancientwritten records.
• the physical remains of a civilization
• linguisticrelationships.
• various typesof primates.

An object made and used by people of the past

• Midden
• Radiocarbon dating
• Artifact
• Site

The name for the Old Stone Age

• Neolithic
• Space Age
• Paleolithic
• Mesolithic

Complex society with cities, organized government and a system of writing.

• cuneiform
• civilization
• technology
• city-state

What test performed by archaeologists was used to analyze fossils and artifacts?

• Domestification
• Fossilizing
• carbon dating
• Endopretodosis