GRADE 6
SOCIAL STUDIES
BELLRINGERS
Prepared by Paulette Cefalu-Walkwitz
1. Identify land and climate conditions that are conducive to
human settlement.
2. Identify some physical features that have influenced world
historical events.
3. Identify some cultural goals and interests, inventions, and
technological advances that have affected people's perception and use
of world regions.
4. Identify some reasons for early migrations.
5. Identify some physical features that have discouraged
migrations of people.
6. Identify some historical migration routes.
7. Identify some factors that have made cultural diffusion
possible.
8. Identify some historical events and trade routes that led to
the distribution of culture.
9. Identify some trade of goods that have encouraged economic
interdependence among ancient civilizations.
10. Identify some ancient centers of trade.
11. Identify some political borders established by ancient
civilizations.
12. What is the effect of physical environments on human activity
in ancient civilizations.
13. Identify some human adaptations of physical environment.
14. Identify the characteristics of hunter-gatherers and desert
nomads.
15. Identify some primary source material.
16. Distinguish the difference between a primary and secondary
source.
17. Identify hunter-gatherer societies.
18. Identify building materials used by early civilizations.
19. Identify materials used to create early tools.
20. Identify natural resources important to the development of
agriculture in early civilizations.
21. Identify physical barriers that provided ancient
civilizations protection
22. Identify reasons for domestication of plants and animals.
23. Identify major climatic changes which led to domestication.
24. Identify the characteristics of the following major early
river valley civilizations:
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus Valley
China
25. Identify some military migrations and invasions in Europe and
Asia.
26. Identify some of the tools and weapons introduced in
Southwest Asia and the Mediterranean region.
27. What forms of writing were developed in early civilizations?
28. Identify the cultural achievements of Greece.
29. Compare and contrast the major religions that emerged in the
Mediterranean Basin, China, and India.
30. Explain the effect of major religions on European, Asian, and
Afrcan civilizations.
31. Identify major events, key figures, and social structure of
the Early Middle Ages.
32. Identify major innovations in shipbuilding, navigation, and
naval warfare.
33. Identify the accomplishments of King Philip the Navigator.