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3.2 Early Civilisation
Social Studies · Grade 8 · 8 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Meaning of civilisation and selected early civilisations in Africa and beyond
- Best practices from Egypt and Nubia (Kush/Meroe)
- Origin of early visitors from Asia and Europe to the East African Coast up to 1500
- Swahili civilisation along the East African coast
- Factors that led to the growth of East African city states
- Best practices from early civilisations in the modern world
- Importance of cultural heritage
What you will be able to do
- describe Swahili civilisation along the East African coast
- show how best practices from early civilisations have contributed to the modern world
- appreciate best practices of early civilisation to the development of the modern world
Key questions
“Why is cultural heritage important to society?”
Lessons
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What early civilisation means
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizThe meaning of civilisation, how Grade 8 adds the East African coast and visitors from Asia and Europe, and why heritage will be the inquiry.
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Best practices from Egypt and Nubia
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizWriting, irrigation, calendar, stone building, medicine and Meroe iron as African Nile practices the modern world still borrows.
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Early visitors from Asia to the East African Coast
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHow monsoon winds brought traders from Arabia, Persia, India and China, and how to locate those homelands on a map of Asia.
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Early visitors from Europe up to 1500
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHow Greeks and Romans knew the coast as Azania, and how the Portuguese arrived in 1498 seeking India, using Malindi pilots.
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Swahili civilisation along the East African coast
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizPeople, Kiswahili, Islam, coral towns and ocean trade as the five blocks of Swahili civilisation, described as African at the root.
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East African city states and why they grew
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHow to locate Mogadishu to Sofala, including Lamu, Malindi and Mombasa, and six factors that grew those harbours.
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Best practices from early civilisations in the modern world
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizWriting, measuring time, making and mending, towns and ports, navigation, and mixing with respect - role-played as today Kenya habits.
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Why cultural heritage is important to society
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizAnswering the inquiry with identity, skill, cohesion, work and warning, and how Grade 8 can protect Swahili and Nile heritage.