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Slice the Roman coinsRead the answer and worked solution →Early or late empireRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the social groupsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Roman Empire bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The shift from nomadic life to settled agriculture began around how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →In West Asia the earliest crops grown were wheat, barley, peas and:Read the answer and worked solution →The first human-like creatures appeared on earth about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Modern humans resembling us originated about how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →The famous skull found by quarrymen in August 1856 came from which valley?Read the answer and worked solution →Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published on 24 November of which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Primates, the category of mammals including apes and humans, emerged about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Walking on two feet is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The earliest hominid fossils, of the genus Australopithecus, were found in:Read the answer and worked solution →The name Australopithecus combines Latin austral, southern, with Greek pithekos, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →Mary and Louis Leakey worked for over 40 years at which East African site?Read the answer and worked solution →Fossilised hominid footprints giving evidence of bipedalism 3.6 mya were found at:Read the answer and worked solution →Around how many million years ago did an Ice Age expand grasslands and favour the genus Homo?Read the answer and worked solution →Homo habilis means:Read the answer and worked solution →Fossils of Homo habilis were found at Olduvai Gorge and at Omo in:Read the answer and worked solution →Modjokerto and Sangiran, sites of Homo erectus fossils, are in:Read the answer and worked solution →Fossils named Homo heidelbergensis take their name from a city in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Neanderthals occupied Europe and western and Central Asia from roughly 130,000 to:Read the answer and worked solution →The model holding that modern humans arose in a single region, Africa, and replaced older forms is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The earliest clear evidence for planned hunting of large mammals, 500,000 years ago, comes from Boxgrove in:Read the answer and worked solution →Thousands of flake tools and hand axes dated 700,000 to 500,000 years ago were found at Kilombe and Olorgesailie in:Read the answer and worked solution →Dolni Vestonice, a site of planned hunting near a river, is in the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Homo speciesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the African fossil sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the discovery datesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the Roman coins

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Does not match the category
  1. Rupya
  2. Drachma
  3. Shekel
  4. Dinar
Matches the category
  1. Denarius
  2. Solidus
  3. Amphora
  4. Dressel
Instructions
Slice only the Roman coins and containers named.
_Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 3, An Empire Across Three Continents._

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Early or late empire

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Upper category
Early
Lower category
Late
Items
  1. Category
    Early
    Item
    Augustus
  2. Category
    Early
    Item
    Trajan
  3. Category
    Early
    Item
    Denarius
  4. Category
    Early
    Item
    Pompeii
  5. Category
    Late
    Item
    Solidus
  6. Category
    Late
    Item
    Diocletian
  7. Category
    Late
    Item
    Byzantium
  8. Category
    Late
    Item
    Justinian
Instructions
Send each fact to the early empire or the late empire.
_Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 3, An Empire Across Three Continents._

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Sort the social groups

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Items
  1. Group
    Top
    Item
    Senators
  2. Group
    Top
    Item
    Patres
  3. Group
    Top
    Item
    Equites
  4. Group
    Middle
    Item
    Officials
  5. Group
    Middle
    Item
    Merchants
  6. Group
    Bottom
    Item
    Plebs sordida
  7. Group
    Bottom
    Item
    Humiliores
  8. Group
    Bottom
    Item
    Slaves
Groups
  1. Item
    Top
  2. Item
    Middle
  3. Item
    Bottom
Instructions
Drop each term onto its rank in Roman society.
_Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 3, An Empire Across Three Continents._

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