Starter quiz
- When did the Sumer and Ancient Egyptian civilisations exist?
- 3 BCE
- 0 CE
- 3000 BCE ✓
- 3 BCE
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- Match keywords to the definitions.
- civilisation⇔people living together in an organised way ✓
- ancient⇔from many thousands of years ago ✓
- farming⇔growing crops and raising animals for food ✓
- trade⇔buying and selling items ✓
- Where did the Sumer civilisation develop?
- Egypt
- United Kingdom
- Mesopotamia ✓
- Italy
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- Which two rivers were important to the Sumer civilisation?
- River Nile
- River Tigris ✓
- River Thames
- River Euphrates ✓
- Yellow River
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- Having a surplus means you have ______ food than you need.
- 'more' ✓
- Which of these are true about both Ancient Egypt and Ancient Sumer?
- They were successful farmers. ✓
- They were in Mesopotamia.
- They developed near rivers. ✓
- They wrote using hieroglyphs.
- They traded with other people. ✓
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Exit quiz
- A '______ of civilisation' is a place where a civilisation first grew and developed.
- 'cradle' ✓
- Match the keywords to their definitions.
- nomadic⇔moving from place to place ✓
- settle⇔to stay and live in one place ✓
- similarity⇔when something is like something else, but is not exactly the same ✓
- Which ancient 'cradle of civilisation' was located in modern-day India?
- Sumer
- Ancient Egyptian
- Shang
- Indus Valley ✓
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- Match the ancient civilisation to the river it was close to.
- Indus Valley⇔Indus River ✓
- Shang⇔Yellow River ✓
- Ancient Egyptian⇔River Nile ✓
- Sumer⇔Tigris and Euphrates Rivers ✓
- Order the ancient civilisations starting with the earliest.
- 1⇔Sumer
- 2⇔Indus Valley and Ancient Egypt
- 3⇔Shang
- What were similarities of all 'cradles of civilisation'?
- channeling water for farming ✓
- having a nomadic lifestyle
- inventing types of art ✓
- building cities ✓
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Key learning points
- Mesopotamia and the Nile were not the only places where people stopped moving around and settled down to farm.
- In Asia, other civilisations developed in the Indus River Valley and the Yellow River Valley.
- Historians and archaeologists sometimes use the phrase 'cradles of civilisation' to describe these places.
- As in Egypt and Mesopotamia, the people of the Indus and the Yellow River Valleys channeled water for farming.
- As in Egypt and Mesopotamia, the people of the Indus and the Yellow River Valleys created cities and art.
Common misconception
Egypt and Mesopotamia are the only places to have had early civilisations.
Look at a map of the world and point out the locations of the Indus Valley and Shang civilisations.
Keywords
Nomadic - nomadic people do not settle to live in one place but move from place to place
Cradle - a cradle is a small bed or cot that helps keep babies safe and warm when they sleep
Similarity - a similarity is when something is like something else, but is not exactly the same
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