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Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 10 of 10

Gifts from the Past

Ideas and inventions we still use

What your child practises

What ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Greece, Rome, the Maya and the Inca left behind, such as writing, a 60-minute hour, paper, democracy, roads and languages.

Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: 5.6.1 · ideas and inventions from the past that we still use

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

    Which invention is linked to ancient China?

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    • zero as a number
    • the wheel
    • the Olympic Games
    • paper

  2. Question 2

    Which of these ideas came from ancient Greece?

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    • the quipu
    • zero in numbers
    • paper
    • democracy

  3. Question 3

    What did Roman aqueducts do?

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    • block rivers
    • carry water to cities
    • carry soldiers
    • carry mail only

  4. Question 4

    Ancient Egypt gave the world early forms of…

    • the telegraph
    • electricity
    • papyrus paper and a 365-day calendar
    • cars

  5. Question 5

    Which of these still uses a legacy of Rome?

    • Only bicycles
    • Many laws and many words in English and French
    • Only comic books
    • Nothing at all

  6. Question 6

    Which statement shows a legacy of ancient Greece in school today?

    • Students use mit'a labour
    • Students weigh grain as tax
    • Students learn math ideas like geometry that Greek thinkers wrote about
    • Students learn to read hieroglyphs only

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