1.Prehistory

5. Modern Age

2. Ancient History

3. Middle Ages

4. Early Modern Age

Do you have NEWSPAPERS in your house? Well… we

also created them. We likedwriting down the important

things that happened.

ANCIENT ROME

And yes… theCALENDAR. We

were veryorganized.

We built the ROADS, they made it easier togo from one place of

the Empire to another.

We created theAQUEDUCTS. That´show we got water

everywhere. Do youknow any in Spain?

Good morning, I´m going toexplain to you all the

important innovations wecreated (you will see thatyou use them now). Are

you ready?

I´m going to explain theANCIENT GREECE to younow. You Will see how

many things we developed.

We liked to actand we put on

plays in THEATERS.

ANCIENT GREECE

Very IMPORTANT AND CLEVER PEOPLE

like Socrates werefrom Greece.

We really likedSPORTS and we

created theOLYMPIC GAMES to compete with

people from otherplaces.

DEMOCRACY: we startedvoting for importantthings, although not

everybody could do it.

We are very very old, froma looooong time ago… we

are the EGYPTIANS.

We used HIEROGLYPHICS to write. They were

symbols. But we couldread them.

ANCIENT EGYPT

We built the famousPYRAMIDS. We used

them as tombs for the pharaohs and

their queens.

ThePHARAOHS

were like yourkings

nowadays. Wehad to obey

them.

ANCIENT ROME ANCIENT GREECE ANCIENT EGYPT

Complete the diagram about the Ancient Age:

Read about the Roman Calendar and you will see the names of the Roman months at the end. Write the English months in the spaces alongside them.

The Roman Calendar:

The Roman calendar changed many times over the years and between the foundation of Rome and when Rome fell as an empire.

The calendar that was used before 46 B.C. is called the pre-Julian calendar and the calendar used after 46 BC was called the Julian calendar.

Lunar Calendar

The first calendar was only ten months long and it started at the vernal equinox.

This calendar was invented by Romulus who founded Rome in the year 753 BC. The first calendar was based on the Greek calendar.

Months

The ten months of the pre-Julian calendar were:

• Martius which had 31 days. _________________________________

• Aprilis which had 30 days. _________________________________

• Maius which had 31 days. _________________________________

• Quintillis which had 31 days. _________________________________

• Sextilis which had 30 days. _________________________________

• September which had 30 days. _________________________________

• October which had 31 days. _________________________________

• November which had 30 days. _________________________________

• December which had 30 days. _________________________________