Legacy of Civilizations
📋 What it is
Ancient civilizations left legacies — writing, laws, math, roads — that still shape the modern world.
🗣️ Coach says
The ancient world never really ended — it’s built into now. Your alphabet, your numbers, ideas about law and government all descend from ancient civilizations. Tracing a modern thing back to its ancient root is real historical thinking.
🧠 Memory hook
The ancient world lives on — in your alphabet, numbers, laws. Trace the roots.
😂 Giggle
What do you call an artifact that tells jokes?
A pun-dle of history!
😲 Whoa!
The numbers you use (0–9) are called “Arabic numerals” but were developed in ancient India — an idea that travelled the world.
🗺️ Choose your path through the dig. There’s no way to lose — a wrong turn just sends you back to try again.
Someone says “the ancient world has nothing to do with my life.” Is that true?
Dead end — the ancient world is built into NOW: your alphabet, numbers and laws all descend from it.
You look at your own alphabet, your numbers, and ideas of law and voting.
Not so — the numbers 0–9 came from ancient India, the alphabet from Phoenician/Greek/Roman roots, democracy from Greece. Trace the roots.
You connect everyday things — letters, numbers, laws, roads — back to the ancient civilizations that created them.
🧠 Say it back: Things still used today with ancient roots include the alphabet (Phoenician/Greek/Roman), our number system (from India), democracy (Greece) and written law (Mesopotamia/Rome).
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Name one thing in your daily life (letters, numbers, a law, a road) with an ancient root.