STRUCTURES AND HOMES
This giant triangular stone structure was built as a tomb for Egyptian pharaohs.
What is a pyramid?
Ancient Egyptians relied on this long river for water, farming, and transportation.
What is The Nile River?
Europeans wanted beaver pelts so badly because the soft underfur was used to make fashionable ones of these to wear.
What are hats?
Ancient Chinese rulers were given this title, and their families ruled for many generations in groups called dynasties.
What are emperors?
This system of picture writing was carved onto Egyptian temple walls
What are hieroglyphics?
The Haudenosaunee lived in large wooden-frame houses covered in elm bark that could hold up to 60 family members, called these.
What is a longhouse?
Ancient Chinese civilization began along the Huang He, a river nicknamed this colour because of the clay in its water. Also referred to "The Mother River".
What is The Yellow River?
Ancient Chinese sailors used this magnetic tool to find North and navigate across oceans.
What is a compass?
Respected as keepers of wisdom, history, and experience, these older members of the community taught traditions, told stories, and led ceremonies.
Who are elders?
Knights used long wooden poles to try to knock each other off their horses in this sport.
What is jousting?
Many Algonquin and Cree families lived in cone-shaped tents made of wooden poles covered in birchbark or animal hides so they could easily pack up and move.
What is a tipi?
The ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu is located in this modern-day South American country.
What is Peru?
To help Europeans walk on top of deep winter snow without sinking, Indigenous peoples shared this special footwear.
What are snowshoes?
This "M" is the name of the French priests who traveled to Indigenous villages to teach them about the Catholic religion.
What are Missionaries?
Indigenous peoples made these belts out of purple and white shell beads to record important agreements and treaties with Europeans.
What are wampum belts?
This famous Inca stone city was built high on a mountain ridge and is often called the "Lost City of the Incas."
What is Machu Picchu?
Many early societies—like Egypt, China, and the Indus Valley—grew next to these physical features because they provided fresh water, rich soil, and easy travel.
What are rivers?
Invented in Ancient China, this thin material made writing and printing much easier than carving on stone.
What is paper?
These are warriors in metal armour who fought on horseback and followed a code of honour called chivalry.
What are knights?
Europeans accidentally brought new sicknesses, such as measles and this spot-causing disease, which made many Indigenous peoples very ill.
What is smallpox?
Romans watched chariot races and gladiator battles inside this giant oval stadium.
What is the Colosseum?
Indigenous peoples taught Europeans how to build these lightweight bark boats to travel quickly along Canada’s rivers and lakes.
What are canoes?
Thousands of life-sized clay soldiers were buried underground to guard the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang.
What is the Terracotta army?
These were the poorest poeple in Medieval England, who lived in small, one- or two-room cottages made of woven sticks covered in mud, clay, and straw with thatched roofs and dirt floors.
Who are peasants?
Built along rivers and lakes, these wooden forts were places where Indigenous peoples and Europeans met to exchange goods.
What are trading posts?