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Strand A: Heritage and Identity: Early Societies to 1500 CE
How people lived, were governed, worked and met conflict in early societies up to 1500 CE (expectations A1, A2, A3).
- Living together: agreements between groups How different groups in an early society cooperated or came into conflict, and what agreements they made to live together (A3.9, A3.10). Story × 2
- Who kept the market honest and the sick cared for? How an early society was governed and what work-related groups did in it, such as officials and healers (A3.7, A3.8). InventionCareersPlace
- Measuring floods, making paper, gathering books How a river flood and new technologies shaped life in an early society, from measuring the Nile to making paper (A3.4, A3.6). Place × 2Invention
- Clay jars and public fountains How everyday objects and public buildings show daily life in an early society, from the water jars of Nishapur to the fountains called sabils (A3.2, A3.3). ObjectPlace
- Who belonged to which group? How dress marked the groups of an early society, and what that shows about how it was organised (A1.2). Object
- Where did children grow up and learn? Where small children spent their first years and where they were taught in two early societies, compared with your own life (A1.3). StoryPlace
- Land, water and the way people lived How people used land, grazing and water, and how a desert road shaped a journey (A1.4, A3.5). Place × 2Reflection