Year 3 History · KS2

Ancient Civilisations: Egypt and the Indus Valley

24 lessons, in the order they are taught. Part of the Year 3 History curriculum.

What this topic covers

  1. 1Bronze dings
  2. 2Jade artefacts
  3. 3Oracle bones and writing
  4. 4The discovery of Fu Hao's tomb
  5. 5What archaeologists have found out about the Shang
  6. 6Who were the Shang?
  7. 7Change and continuity in Ancient Egypt
  8. 8Death and the Ancient Egyptians
  9. 9Howard Carter and the Valley of the Kings
  10. 10The River Nile
  11. 11The Rosetta Stone and Egyptian writing
  12. 12The three kingdoms of Egypt
  13. 13Comparing the earliest civilisations
  14. 14Mesopotamia, the land 'between two rivers'
  15. 15Other 'cradles of civilisation'
  16. 16Similarities between the earliest civilisations
  17. 17The art and artefacts of the earliest civilisations
  18. 18The growth of trade, construction and writing in Mesopotamia
  19. 19Archaeology and the Indus
  20. 20Art in the Indus Valley Civilisation
  21. 21Cities of the Indus Valley civilisation
  22. 22The Indus Valley
  23. 23The mysteries of the Indus Valley civilisation
  24. 24What archaeologists have found out about the Indus Valley civilisation

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