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| Welcome to the British Museum's web site on ancient civilizations. These 'Staff Room' pages have been developed to help teachers get the most out of the web site for themselves and for their class. It is predominantly aimed at schoolchildren aged 9 - 14 and their teachers, but we hope that other groups may find it useful too.
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Writing Through this theme, the user explores examples of writing across the world. The examples in the site seek to provide answers to such questions as: why do people need writing, what types of information have been preserved, what forms of recording were used and on what materials? |
Discussion: Why is writing important? Comparative Study: Writing |
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Buildings Through this theme, the user explores examples of the types of monumental building constructed by people across the world. The examples here seek to provide answers to such questions as: what function did monumental buildings have, were all monumental buildings for religious or royal purposes and what did such buildings look like? |
Discussion: Why build monumental structures? Comparative Study: Monumental Buildings |
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Cities Through this theme, the user explores examples of cities across the world. The examples for this theme seek to provide answers to such questions as: what features do cities have in common, what can we learn from cities discovered by explorers and archaeologists and what can excavations tell us about early cities? |
Discussion: Why build a city here? Comparative Study: Cities |
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Religion Through this theme, the user explores examples of religious belief and practice from across the world. The examples chosen aim to provide answers to such questions as: what can the evidence of tombs, paintings and stories actually tell us about belief and can we ever really reconstruct the religious beliefs of past societies? |
Discussion: Who was buried in the tombs? Comparative Study: Religion |
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Trade Through this theme, the user explores examples of trade across the world. The examples chosen aim to answer such questions as: how were goods transported, was trade carried out locally or over long distances and what else could be traded other than goods and materials? |
Discussion: How far would you travel to trade something? Comparative Study: Trade |
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Technology Through this theme, the user explores examples of the technological processes and products of cultures across the world. The examples for this theme seek to answer such questions as: how did people produce beautiful objects from precious materials and did new technology improve the lives of ordinary people? |
Discussion: Why is printing important? Comparative Study: Technology |
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