1.5 the First Civilisations - Q -

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 2

AGE 1: The Time of Hunters and Farmers

1.5 The first civilisations

- Q -

www.historyshistories.com

Write in your notebook the title of this lesson
Go to the website:
http://www.historyshistories.com/mesopotamia-5-traits-of-civilization.html

Write in your notebook the five traits (characteristics) of a civilisation

4. Drag the texts to the correct pictures.

Because of heavy rainfall, the water level in the river rises. This causes it to overflow and cover the land.

When the water level drops, the river leaves silt. The farmers use this to make their land fertile. They store some of the water in pools.

The river is at a low point.

There is not enough fertile soil for crops to grow.

6. Drag the following events in chronological order, from first to last.

Because of this agricultural surplus some people could 

specialise.

Some farmers learned that they could dig small canals to make more land fertile.

The craftsmen and farmers traded their wares at markets for food.

Some of these craftsmen started to live in cities; this is how agricultural-urban societies arose.

Because of irrigation and floods, farmers grew more food than they could eat.

These people became craftsmen when they specialised in making products with their hands.

The river overflowed and left fertile silt. Farmers grew their crops there.

only in Sumer

only in Egypt

in both

9. Read: "Sumer and Egypt: the first civilisations"

pharaoh

highly developed civilisation

 ruled by a king

Euphrates and Tigris

every city had a king

arose around river(s)

AGE 1. The Time of Hunters and Farmers

1.6 Inventing Writing

Which language can NOT be found on the Rosetta Stone?

1. Hyroglyphic
2. Latin
3. Greek
4. Demotic

How many years (rounded of) are there between the time when the Rosetta Stone was made, and when it was discovered?

1. 200 years
2. 1600 years
3. 1800 years
4. 2000 years

Which of the following is something that Europeans who visited Egypt before the Rosetta Stone was decyphered could never know?

1. what mummies looked like
2. who built the pyramids
3. when Egyptians started farming
4. what Egyptian gods looked like

Which of these statements is correct?

I. the Sumerians used hieroglyphs to record spells and stories.
II. The story of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest storeis that was ever recorded.

1. only I is correct
2. only II is correct
3. both are correct
4. both are wrong

Papyrus was the only material on which the Egyptians wrote something

1. True
2. False

being a scribe was a specialised profession

1. True
2. False

Prehistory is the time of which we have
no written records

1. true
2. false

the Fertile Crescent was the only place in the world where people invented a writing system

1. true
2. false

Which answer is WRONG?

Without the written evidence of the Sumerians we would never know

1. their stories
2. their architecture
3. their names
4. their thoughts

A source is primary when it was made in the time that we are studying

1. true
2. false

A source is primary or secondary.
But it is ALSO written or non-written.
Of each of the following sources choose the correct type.

click the green eye for more information

source A

Egyptian statue, made in 1150 BC

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written

source B

A reconstruction drawing of a family cooking in the Neolithic period

© Historic England (drawing by Peter Urmston)

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written

source C

prehistoric Cave painting in Lascaux, France. Made around 15,000 BC

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written

source D

New York Times, newspaper from Sept 12th, 2001

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written

source E

De Bello Gallico = The Gallic War

English translation, 192 pages

author: Gaius Julius Caesar

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written

source F

Julius Caesar (Command) Paperback – June 22, 2010

by Nic Fields (Author)

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written