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Grade 6 Social Studies: Ancient Innovations & Technology

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1.
a new idea, method, or device that improves how people do something
2.
tools, techniques, and systems people use to solve problems
3.
cuneiform / hieroglyphs / early alphabets (examples)
4.
record laws, trade, stories, and knowledge across distance/time
5.
systems to bring water to crops
6.
more reliable food → population support / surplus ideas
7.
pyramids, ziggurats, aqueducts, roads, temples (examples)
8.
effects on people’s lives, environment, or power structures
9.
Answers vary — new useful idea/method/tool
10.
more stable food supply / support larger populations
11.
store information beyond oral memory
12.
Answers vary (pyramids, roads, aqueducts…)

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