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Gr 5- Unit 7- Ancient Civilisations- What is Civilisation?

Gr 5- Unit 7- Ancient Civilisations- What is Civilisation?

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MYP-t Unit 2 / Gr 5

CGE Unit 7- Ancient Civilisations

Factual Question:

What is Civilisation?

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A Civilisation is

a group of people with their own languages and way of life.


Some examples of civilisations are the Greeks, the Romans, the Mayans, the Aztecs, and the Vikings.

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Civilisation

Civilisation comes from the Latin word civis meaning someone who lives in a town.


When people are civilised, they live in large organized groups like towns, not in small tribes or family groups.

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A civilisation

is organized. This means it has laws, culture, a regular way of getting food, and ways to protect its people. Most civilisations have agriculture (a way to grow food), and a system of government, such as kings and queens or elections. 

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The people

in a civilisation usually speak their own language, and often have a religion of some kind. The adults teach their children the things they want them to know. For thousands of years, all civilisations have also had some kind of writing.

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1. Thousands of years ago, instead of buying their food at a store, people were h______________________.

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2.We learn about prehistoric people by the help of a_________________.

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3. Staying in one place, with extra food, people started to build v____________.

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4. Hunters grew their own food and domesticated animals like cows, pigs, chickens and goats. This was called a_______________.

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5. Villages grew bigger and became towns and cities as t_______________improved.

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6. People began t_____________with people from other cities, and then with places very far away

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7. In order to keep track of these trades , people began to develop w__________________.

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8. Through all of these changes people developed societies known as 'c_____________________.'

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9. Civilizations have strong g_______________ with rulers.

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10. The first known civilization developed over seven thousand years ago, in M___________________.

MYP-t Unit 2 / Gr 5

CGE Unit 7- Ancient Civilisations

Factual Question:

What is Civilisation?

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