Early Civilisation - 2

TRUE or FALSE

"Pictograms are pictures that represented things"

• TRUE

• FALSE

Pick the following new technology that helped ancient farmers with their farming

• A hose

• A tractor

• Horses and cows

• An ox drawn plough

Why did farmers need calendars?

• So they would not miss their appointments in town

• To know what day it was

• So they could know what crop to plant based on the weather

People in the Shang Dynasty civilisations build their houses using.....

• Mud bricks and wood

• Sand, clay and metal

• Gravel, sand, mud, wood and thatch roof

_______ are people who could read and write

• Scribes

• Cuneiform

The alphabet started off as

• pictographs

• script

What did Sumerians use to make a writing stylus?

• Plastic

• Bronze

• Gold

• Reeds

Name the civilisation:

- Tigris and Euphrates

- Cuneiform

- City-States

• Ancient Egypt

• Ancient Sumer

• Shang Dynasty

• Indus Valley

Name the civilisation:

- Huang He (Yellow) River

- Calligraphy writing

- Paper and Silk

• Indus Valley

• Ancient Egypt

• Shang Dynasty

• Ancient Sumer

The Shang Dynasty mostly used math for

• Astrology and following the stars

• Farming and building