Grade 8 · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 9
World Views & Early Societies
How people see the world and build societies
What your child practises
What a world view is, how hunter-gatherer and farming societies differ, what makes a civilization, and why writing and farming changed early societies.
Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: 8-KI-005, 8-KI-006, 8-KI-007, 8-KI-008, 8-KI-011, 8-KI-012 · world views, society and civilization, hunter-gatherer and farming societies
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
A world view is…
- a type of map
- the way a person or group understands the world and their place in it
- a list of rulers
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the way a person or group understands the world and their place in it
Hint: A world view shapes beliefs, values and choices.
Question 2
Societies pass on their beliefs, customs and knowledge through…
- only coins
- stories, teaching and traditions
- weather
- only machines
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stories, teaching and traditions
Hint: Oral teaching and writing both pass on culture.
Question 3
Why is it important to learn that people have different stories of how the world began?
- so we ignore science
- so we pick the shortest story
- it proves nobody is right
- it helps us respect different world views
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it helps us respect different world views
Hint: Stories show what people value.
Question 4
Why did early cities grow near rivers?
- rivers made deserts
- there were no other places
- rivers stopped all floods
- rivers gave water, fertile soil and ways to travel
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rivers gave water, fertile soil and ways to travel
Hint: The natural environment shaped where people lived.
Question 5
Which of these is a reason for societies to change?
- never speaking
- contact and trade with other peoples
- never moving
- always being isolated
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contact and trade with other peoples
Hint: New ideas spread along trade routes.
Question 6
Why might two societies describe the same land differently?
- maps cannot be used
- the land is changing colour
- they use it in different ways and value different things
- land has no meaning
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they use it in different ways and value different things
Hint: Needs and values shape how people see a place.