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| History is the story of what has happened in the past. |
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| What are two ways that we learn about history? |
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We learn about history through:
letters, journals and written records
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studying monuments |
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| What do we call people who read letters, journals, documents and monuments to find out about the past? |
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| We call these people historians. |
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| Archaeology is the study of objects dug out of the ground to learn history from them. |
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| What do we call historians who dig objects out of the ground and learn from them? |
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| We call them archaelogists. |
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| What sort of foods did nomads eat? |
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plants such as grasses, leaves, grain, roots, berries
large animals such as elk, deer, reindeer, bison
other foods: eggs, honey, lizards, snakes, fish |
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| Why did nomads move from place to place? |
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| Because they had to move on to where more animals and plants were to find food. |
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| One who wanders or roams around. |
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| Narration: The First Nomads |
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| Nomads moved around a lot. They lived in tents and traveled from place to place. They gathered plants and hunted animals for food. |
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| Why was the Fertile Crescent a good place to live? |
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| There was water, good soil, and plenty of grass and plants. |
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| Why is the Fertile Crescent called "fertile?" |
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| Because lots of plants grew there. |
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| What was the Fertile Crescent shaped like? |
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| What crops did the first farmers grow? |
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| Did farmers move from place to place like nomads? |
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| No, they had to stay in one place to water and tend to their crops, and harvest them. |
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| How did farmers water their crops? |
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| They dug canals from the river and used shadufs. |
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| Did the farmers still hunt wild animals? |
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| They kept their own tame animals. |
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| What did the farmers use to make their houses out of? |
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| How did the first farmers protect their villages? |
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| They build stone walls around them. |
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| Narration: The First Nomads Become Farmers |
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| Nomads learned how to grow crops for food, and stayed in one place. They grew wheat and barley, and dug canals to water the crops. They built villages with walls around them. |
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| What country did the Nile run through? |
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| What did the Nile do every year? |
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| Because it watered the land and brought silt up onto the riverbanks |
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| What were the two tribes who lived in Egypt called? |
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| Upper Egyptians and Lower Egyptians |
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| Who ruled the two tribes in Egypt? |
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| The King with the Red Crown and the King with the White Crown |
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| Did the tribes of Egypt get along with each other? |
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| No, they fought constantly |
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| Who won the battle between the White Crown and the Red Crown Kings? |
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| What kind of crown did the new king wear? |
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| Narration for Two Kingdoms Become One: |
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| Every year, the Nile River in Africa flooded and watered the land and brought rich silt to the land along the river. The two tribes of Egypt fought until the White Crown King defeated the Red Crown King. He united the Upper and Lower Egyptian tribes into one country. |
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| Did the Egyptians worship one god or many gods? |
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| Can you name any of the Egyptian gods? |
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| Ra, Horus, Isis, Osiris, the pharaoh |
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| What is the name of Osiris' evil brother? |
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| In the story, how did Set get Osiris to lie down in the coffin? |
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| He said that the coffin was a gift to whoever it fit best |
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| No, he came back to life again |
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| Narration for Gods of Ancient Egypt: |
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| The Egyptians told stories about their gods. One story about Set and Osiris explained why the Nile floods every year. Set tried to kill Osiris, but Osiris came back to life. |
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What two types of writing did we discuss
in "The First Writing?" |
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| Cuneiform and heiroglyphics |
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| What two countries wrote in cuneiform and heiroglyphics? |
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What three things did the Egyptians and Sumerians write on? |
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| Stone, clay, and paper (or papyrus). |
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| Which of these are the easiest to write on? |
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| Which ones lasted the longest? |
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| What does Mesopotamia mean? |
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Do you remember what "hippopotamus" means? |
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Narrative for Chapter 3:
The First Writing |
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The Egyptians wrote heiroglyphics on stone tablets first, and later on paper. The Sumerians wrote cuneiform on clay tablets. The stone and clay tablets lasted for many years, but the paper writings didn't last as long. |
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What does "embalming" do? |
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What did preist do to a body to make a mummy? |
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| They took the insides out, preserved the body with salt and spices, it in linen and out it into a coffin. |
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Why did the Egyptians think it was important to preserve dead bodies? |
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| So that dead people could go on to the next world. |
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What did the Egyptians bury with their mummy? |
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| Everything a dead person would need: food, clothes, toys, games, jewerly, furniture |
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What was this time in Egyptian history called? |
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What kind of tombs did pharaohs have? |
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What were they made out of? |
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What was Cheops's pyramid called? |
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How long did it take to build it? |
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How did the Egyptians build the pyramid? |
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| Thousands of workers build them by hand. |
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What does the Great Sphinx look like? |
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| It is half lion, half man. |
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Did the Great Sphinx keep robbers out? |
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| No, Cheops's mummy and treasures were still stolen. |
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Do you remember what "Mesopotamia" means? |
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What does "Mesopotamia" mean? |
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What two rivers is Mesopotamia between? |
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| The Tigris and Euphrates. |
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Were the cities in Sumer friends with each other? |
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| No, they fought each other. |
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He conquered all the city-states and made them into one country. |
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What was this country called? |
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How did he keep control of it? |
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| He made harsh laws and put his soldiers in the conquered cities to make them obey. |
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What do we call it when a ruler uses an army to make sure that people obey with questions? |
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In our story, why did Terah want to leave Ur? |
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He was afraid a war would start.
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| What was Terah's son named? |
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Terah and his family went to another city in Mesopatamia - Haran. Why did Abram decide to leave Haran and go to Canaan? |
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What did God promise Abraham? |
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| That he would have a son. |
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Do you rememeber the name of Abraham's wife? |
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| It means "princess." Sarah. |
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In the story, how old was Sarah when she had her baby, Isaac?
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What did Jacob give Joseph to show that he loved him? |
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What did Joseph's brothers think about this? |
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| They were jealous; they didn't like it. |
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| What country did Joseph's brothers send him to? |
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| Joseph was the son of Jacob, and Jacob was the son of Isaac. Who was Isaac's father? |
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What did the Pharoah dream about? |
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| Seven fat cows and seven skinny cows. |
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| Seven good years would come, then seven years of famine. |
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| After Joseph told him the answers to his dream, what did Pharaoh do? |
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| Made him second in command in Egypt. |
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At the end of the story, where did the Israelites live?
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Why did Hammurabi want to be king? |
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| So that people would be treated fairly. |
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What city did Hammurabi rule? |
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What did Hammurabi write down on a stone monument? |
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What were these laws called?
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Who had to obey these laws? |
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Here is one of Hammurabi's laws. |
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| An eye fo an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. |
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What king of Assyria did we read about? |
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What city did he live in? |
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What was the name of his empire? |
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How did he build his empire? |
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| Through conquering other cities, through cruelty, through fear. |
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How was the Assyrian king different from the Babylonian king? |
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Shamshi-Adad was a dictator who ruled by fear and cruelty. Hammurabi ruled by a code of laws.
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Why did ancient people use the river as a road? |
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| It was easier than traveling on sand or rock. |
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Why did people in ancient Mesopotamia and India build cities near rivers? |
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| There was plenty of water for drinking and crops. |
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| A stronghold at the center of a city. |
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Can you tell me some of the things that the people of the Indus Valley built? |
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| Citadels, drains, houses from mud bricks, toilets, public baths. |
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What happend to the citadel cities? |
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| No one knows for sure, but they were deserted. |
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What did the quail decide to do, so that they could escape the hunter? |
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Did the quail keep on cooperating with each other? |
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| No, they started to argue and scattered. |
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What did the hunter do then? |
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| Why is China called "the far east"? |
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Because is all the way to the east on the map, if you live in the Fertile Cresent. |
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The Chinese people lived between two rivers, what are they called? |
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| The Yellow River and The Yangtze River. |
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What was their valley called? |
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The Chinese first settled in many small vilages. Do you remember the name of the emperor who united them into one empire? |
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What did Huang Di's wife, Lei Zu, discover? |
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| She discovered the silkworm and learned how to make silk. |
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What Chinese dynasty did we read about? |
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| A family that rules one country for years and years. |
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How long did the Shang dynasty rule? |
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During the Shang dynasty, the Chinese began to use a special kind of writing. Do you remember what it is called? |
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In pictograms, what do words look like? |
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What are some pictograms we looked at? |
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What valley did Chin live in? |
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What two rivers ran on either side of the Yellow River Valley? |
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| The Yellow River and the Yangtze River. |
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What crop did the ancient farmers of China grow? |
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Why did Chin get up so early in the morning? |
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| He was going to help his father in the fields for the first time. |
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What kind of ground did the rice grow in? |
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What was Chin supposed to do for his father, first thing in the morning? |
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| Find out whether his father was well, whether he needed food or water. |
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What story did Chin's grandfather tell? |
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| About a time when the Yellow River flooded. |
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Do you remember what a continent is? |
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| A large piece of land that has many countries on it. |
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What continent is the Nile River in? |
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Do you remember the name of the large desert in West Africa? |
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Was the desert always hot and sandy?
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| No, once it had water and grass and animals in it. |
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What did archaeologists find when they dug down into the hard, dry drift of the Sahara? |
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| Pollen, seeds, bones of animals, turtle shells. |
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Why did the people of ancient Africa go south? |
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| Because the Sahara began to dry up. |
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Why didn't Anansi want to share with Turtle? |
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What did Anansi tell Turtle to do before he ate? |
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| He told Turtle to wash his hands. |
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Where did Turtle set his supper table when Anansi came to visit him? |
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How did Anansi get down to the bottom of the water? |
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| He put rocks in the pockets of his coat. |
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What did Turtle tell him to do? |
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| Take his jacket off before he ate. |
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What happened when Anansi took his coat off? |
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| He popped back to the surface of the water! |
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Do you remember the three kinds of food that Anansi found in the villages?` |
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| Cassava, plantains and rice. |
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What do cassava look like? |
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What do plantains look like? |
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Why did Anansi keep on leaving the villages to go to the next one? |
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| Because he thought he would find something better. |
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Did he get a wonderful meal at the end of the story? |
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| No, he didnt get anything! |
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What was the moral of this tale? |
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| Don't be greedy - eat what you're given. |
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What happened to the Old Kingdom of Egypt? |
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| It became weak and powerless. |
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When Amenemhet became pharoah, what country did he decide to conquer? |
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Why was Nubia valuable to the Egyptians? |
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What new name did the Egyptians give to Nubia? |
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What do we call this time in Egyptian history? |
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| The Middle Kingdom of Egypt. |
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What happened to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt? |
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| It became weak because of bad pharaohs. |
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Who invaded Egypt and took over the Egyptian throne? |
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| Wandering nomads called the Hyksos. |
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Did the Egyptians like having Hyksos for kings? |
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| No! They thought the Hyksos were unclean shepherds. |
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