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Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 10

Where and When?

Find ancient civilizations in place and time

What your child practises

Where early civilizations grew up (the Nile, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, the Mediterranean, the Americas) and how to read BCE and CE dates. The peoples of the Americas are shown as living peoples.

Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: 5.1.1; 5.2.1 · finding ancient civilizations in place and time

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Put these events in order from earliest to latest.

    • ⛰️Spain conquers the Inca Empire (from 1532 CE)
    • 🏙️First cities of Sumer (about 3500 BCE)
    • 🐉Qin unites China (221 BCE)
    • 🔺Great Pyramid built at Giza (about 2560 BCE)
    • 🏛️Western Roman Empire ends (476 CE)

  2. Question 2

    Which year comes right after 1 BCE?

    • 10 CE
    • 1 BCE again
    • 1 CE
    • 2 BCE

  3. Question 3

    Which date is the most recent?

    • 1000 BCE
    • 200 BCE
    • 1 BCE
    • 200 CE

  4. Question 4

    Why did many people in ancient Egypt live in a strip beside the Nile?

    • The river was the only place with mountains
    • The land beside it was always frozen
    • The river flooded and left rich soil for farming
    • The river was salty and kept animals away

  5. Question 5

    The Maya, Aztec and Inca peoples are not only in the past. Which statement is true?

    • Descendants of these peoples live and speak their languages today
    • All of these peoples have disappeared
    • They lived only in Europe
    • They only exist in museums

  6. Question 6

    A historian says an event happened 'about 2500 BCE'. Roughly how many years ago is that, from 2025?

    • about 500 years
    • about 2500 years
    • about 4500 years
    • about 1500 years

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