6th Grade Social Studies Vocabulary Word Wall – 139 Terms

These Social Studies Vocabulary Word Wall Cards are perfect for 6th grade NC Essential Standards. You can use them for one big word wall or break them down into standards. This word wall set also includes an editable template to create new words.

absolute location
ancient civilization
archaeologist
architecture
artifact
continent
culture
development
elevation
emergence
geography
government
hemisphere
hunter-gatherer
infrastructure
job specialization
Mesopotamia
migration
monotheism
nomad
Paleolithic
period
physical feature
polytheism
region
relative location
religion
scale
slave
social class
society
technology
trade
alien
acropolis
barbarian
Buddhism
bureaucracy
citizen
city-state
Cleopatra
consuls
democracy
dynasty
economy
epic
empire
Egypt
expansion
forum
hierarchy
Hun
Islam
Judaism
monarchy
mummification
mythology
Nile
Patriarch
Pharaoh
polis
pyramid
republic
senate
surplus
veto
appease
authority
cathedral
Catholic
Christianity
chivalry
clergy
conquest
consuls
decline
feudalism
great
Hinduism
infidel
influence
institution
invasion
king
lord
monk
mosque
peasant
Pope
serf
squire
theology
unify
vassal
wall
activist
adobe
ages
alliance
altitude
ancestry
artisan
Aztec
conquistador
contagious
creation
Crusades
environment
family tree
flooding
irrigation
journeyman
Mayan
pandemic
peninsula
plague
potato
rainforest
renaissance
sacrifice
slash and burn
Stonehenge
terrace
topography
tribute
valley
Neolithic
domesticate
agriculture
irrigation
monsoon
granary
subcontinent
Caste System
Legalism
Daoism
Confucianism
Silk Road
Mandate of Heaven

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