Conclusion

Based on what I have researched and know, these are the answers I have come up with for these questions. Do you agree or not?

**Did ancient civilisations know more than us? Why or why not? **
In a way they did, in a way they didn’t. I find that we have improved from what they knew, the technology has evolved because of their knowledge of how to start and create civilisation. You could also say that the ancient civilisations started from scratch, and that we have only improved what they knew. Ancient civilisations probably knew more about these sorts of things:
 * Agriculture: farming, hunting
 * Starting from scratch
 * Looking for materials in nature
 * Starting a civilisation

Even though they might have known more about how to start a civilisation and how to organize it, we know more about electronics and the world around us. This is true because the ancient civlisations probably didn't have: Because of this I would say they knew more, but that we have improved what they knew, or found out new things they couldn't have thought of.
 * iPods
 * phones
 * computers
 * machines: cars, trucks, tractors, etc.
 * etc.

**What was the most important element of ancient life? Why? **
I think that there actually were two important elements, agriculture and government. I think it was these because for a civilisation to last you might need food, and people to keep order and justice. If I only had to choose one, it was probably be agriculture. If the people were to survive, they would need food and water, they wouldn’t exactly need people to rule them. <span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Though there is actually another point: how would it be a civilisation without order or rulers? In a way you would need both agriculture and government, and that there can't be only one of them, or the civilisation would fail.

<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 17px;">In which civilisation would you like to be a member of the ruling classes/working classes? Why? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;">Egypt, I would say because a pharaoh had a nice life. A pharaoh was a ‘human god’ who everyone worshipped. They could rest and be entertained as long as wanted, though they also had to rule and make laws. I think that a pharaoh had to decide, like in Babylon, whether someone was guilty or innocent and if what they had done was a crime or not. It would be hard, because every job has something bad and something good about it.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;">Ruling classes: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 17px;">Working classes: ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;">It doesn’t actually matter which civilisation it was in, because it was mainly the same jobs with the same expectations in the different civilisations. It also depends on which job we actually are talking about. If it were a farmer we were talking about, though if it was an entertainer, it would matter. In the different civilisations the entertainers probably had different things to do, like acrobatics, dancing, etc. If I were an entertainer it would probably be in Egypt, and if it was just about the working class, it would probably also be Egypt.

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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 17px;">Which civilisation had the most impact on our lives today? How? ** ======

I think that ancient Greece had the most impact on our lives today because of what they invented. Some of their inventions were: These things have been very useful in our lives today, cranes for building, the alphabet to be able to use the same symbols and more or less understand each other, the shower to quickly clean ourselves, aspirin to help headaches go away, etc. Chewing gum might not be as useful as the rest of the list, but many people like it! Many of these things are still used, so I would say that Greece had most impact on our lives today.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">the lever
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">a shower
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">the Olympic games
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">the lighthouse
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">chewing gum
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">an alphabet
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cranes
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">democracy
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">a theatre
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">philosophy
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">aspirin

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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 17px;">What was the greatest ancient civilisation? Why? ** ======

For this I think it would be either Rome or Egypt. Rome was a very successful civilisation. They conquered many lands and other civilisations. In the countries where people were not that civilised, they would build roads, houses, mainly make other places civilised. They improved the knowledge of other ancient civilisations, and constructed strong, new buildings. As all civilisations, there were also some not as great things they did, such as many wars, having slaves kill each other for entertainment, etc. Egypt was a civilisation that lasted for 3000 years (a long time: you probably wont live that long). They invented one of the most useful things: paper. This civilisation is a different sort of great than Rome. Rome was more mighty, and they conquered many lands, though Egypt lasted longer and were orderly and mighty in the civilisation they had. Egyptians knew a lot about farming: when the soil was good for farming on, when crops were ready for harvesting, etc. I find this amazing, because they had to figure it out themselves, and we just learnt it from them.
 * Rome:**
 * Egypt:**