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AGE 1: The Time of Hunters and Farmers
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AGE 1: The Time of Hunters and Farmers
1.5 The first civilisations


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Slide 1 - Diapositive

Slide 2 - Lien

Go to the website:
http://www.historyshistories.com/mesopotamia-5-traits-of-civilization.html

Write down the five traits (characteristics) of a civilisation.

Slide 3 - Question ouverte

In the previous lessons you learned about hunters and farmers.
Write down three differences between the lives of hunter-gatherers and farmers.
The differences are about: 1: food, 2: housing and 3: possessions.

Slide 4 - Question ouverte

Read "The land between two rivers".
Describe the landscape of ancient Mesopotamia in 3 sentences.
Number the sentences: 1, 2, 3.
Use the following words in your answer: Mesopotamia, desert, rivers, Euphrates, Tigris, cities.

Slide 5 - Question ouverte

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.


Slide 6 - Question de remorquage

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.

Slide 7 - Question de remorquage

Open the text on the right.
It has the same statements as in the previous question.

Use this to choose the correct answer.
A
statement G is a cause of statement E
B
statement G is an effect of statement E

Slide 8 - Quiz

Open the text on the right.
It has the same statements as in the previous question.

Use this to choose the correct answer.
A
statement A is a cause of statement E
B
statement A is an effect of statement E

Slide 9 - Quiz

Open the text on the right.
It has the same statements as in the previous question.

Use this to choose the correct answer.
A
statement E is a cause of statement C
B
statement E is an effect of statement C

Slide 10 - Quiz

Open the text on the right.
It has the same statements as in the previous question.

Use this to choose the correct answer.
A
statement F is a cause of statement D
B
statement F is an effect of statement D

Slide 11 - Quiz

Make the correct connections by dragging key-words to their explanations.
irrigation
specialise
agricultural surplus
craftsman
market

Slide 12 - Question de remorquage

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)

Slide 13 - Question de remorquage

Read "Sumer and Egypt: the first civilisations".

Which five aspects of a culture can you find in the text?
Number them 1 - 5

Slide 14 - Question ouverte

Read "Sumer and Egypt: the first civilisations".
Give two similarities between the civilisations of Sumer and Egypt. What did they have in common?
Number your answers 1. and 2.


Slide 15 - Question ouverte

congratulations

Slide 16 - Diapositive