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What Did We Learn in 6 th Grade History?

What Did We Learn in 6 th Grade History?. You began by looking at the First Civilizations which developed along fast, flowing Rivers. Mesopotamian Cultures. Indus Valley. Earliest Chinese Civilization- Divided up into Dynasties. The land of the Egyptians and the Hebrews.

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What Did We Learn in 6 th Grade History?

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  1. What Did We Learn in 6th Grade History?

  2. You began by looking at the First Civilizations which developed along fast, flowing Rivers.

  3. Mesopotamian Cultures

  4. Indus Valley

  5. Earliest Chinese Civilization-Divided up into Dynasties

  6. The land of the Egyptians and the Hebrews

  7. These people learned how to farm in dry areas by learning how to manipulate the flooding rivers.“adapting to theirenvironment”

  8. Each of these civilizations had religions. • No gods were involved in: • Buddhism Confucianism

  9. Then there were polytheistic Cultures.

  10. You also looked at the birth of monotheism.Abraham------------------ Moses

  11. One of these Hebrews extended the teachings of monotheism and started a new religion called Christianity

  12. Then you hopped across the Mediterranean to study the Greeks and those that attacked them.Greeks Persians

  13. At the end of the year, you should have studied the Romans.

  14. You were introduced to many conquerors. • Gilgamesh The city of Uruk

  15. They spent 2000 years conquering the same land. • http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

  16. Sargon (Akkadans) Many of these guys created “empires”.

  17. King Hammurabi and the First Babylonian Kingdom

  18. He wrote down his laws on a large stone and put it in the center of the city.“Code of Hammurabi”

  19. Hebrew Kingdom

  20. The Assyrians

  21. The New Babylonians and their leader Nebuchadnezzar.(Aka as Chaldeans.)

  22. King Cyrus and the Persian empire

  23. And then, Alexander the Great Came along.

  24. And finally the Romans conquered the whole Mediterranean area.

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