World Studies 3A 3B 6th grade

Anything that gives you news or information

• credibility

• secondary source

• source of information

• primary credibility

Original records or first hand testimony of an event under investigation

• primary source

• secondary source

• constitutional source

• bias

Government in which the right to rule is held by a person or a group who bases their power on their religious authority

• dictatorship

• democracy

• theocracy

• direct democracy

Government in which citizens elect representatives who decide issues for them

• representative democracy

• democracy

• theocracy

• direct democracy

Government in which citizens vote directly on issues

• representative democracy

• democracy

• theocracy

• direct democracy

Government in which the right to rule comes from the citizens

• representative democracy

• democracy

• theocracy

• direct democracy

Government in which the right to rule is taken by force or by a person or a small group of people

• representative democracy

• dictatorship

• theocracy

• direct democracy

Government in which the country is ruled by one or two people; king and queen. The power is passed from one member of the ruling family to another.

• representative democracy

• monarchy

• theocracy

• dictatorship

Government in which the real power rests with an elected legislature. The monarch is a ceremonial head of state.

• monarchy

• constitutional monarchy

• theocracy

• dictatorship

(Objects) Includes buildings, clothing, furniture, jewelry, and pottery.

• artifacts

• source of information

• bias

• credibility