Year 7 Unit: Ancient Civilisations Year Level: 7 vels level: 5VELS StandardsWorking in teamsReasoning, processing and inquiry
In the first episode, old mate drills into a mountain, carbon dates some rock and decides there was a 20,000 year old civilisation there because the rock is 20,000 years old. By the same technique, the driveway I had laid last week would have 100,000 year old sand stone in it, so...
sex was prohibited on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays, amounting to almost half the year. In addition, sex was forbidden during the forty days of Lent, forty days before Christmas and so on. It was also forbidden three days before receiving Communion. ...
1 / 3 Europe (3000 BC - 0 AD) 37. Minoan Civilization (Greece) It is believed that the Minoan Civilization began roughly around 2200 BC. This is the time when the Palace at Knossos is believed to have begun. Around 1700 BC, the entire center was destroyed. It is believed that this ...
from contamination inside a mass of clay, can successfully be extracted from a 2900-year-old clay brick. We encourage future research into this subject, as the scientific prospects for this approach are substantial, potentially leading to a deeper understanding of ancient and lost civilisations. ...
1.Ancient Greeks livedover 3000 years ago. Their civilisations followed aDark Agein Greece, which is thought to have ended in800 B.C. For the most part, Ancient Greece was divided into several smallcity-states,each with their own laws, customs, and rulers. However, in the 300s B.C.,...
The Mayan calendar consists of multiple cycles of different lengths. The 260-day count is called Tzolkin while the 365-day solar year is calledHaab. Together, these two cycles form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 years which is known as the Calendar Round. ...
opening up over three thousand years of history and one of the world’s oldest civilisations. After almost two millennia of relying on ancient Greek and Roman historians’ somewhat spotty understanding of the much older history of Egypt and the persistent misinterpretation of Egyptian writing as pure...
(Fig.4; Supplementary Table10). In fact, the Maykop phenomenon was long understood as the terminus of expanding Mesopotamian civilisations5,7,36. It has been further suggested that along with these influences the key technological innovations in western Asia that had revolutionised the late 4th...