Year 5 History

(Week 32)

Worksheet 1

On the road
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I Look at these pictures. Write a sentence or two next to each

picture explaining how people transported goods before the wheel
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Using roads

1 Match up the two halves of each sentence to explain how early

roads were created.
The first roads linked as simple dirt tracks

People travelled along the roads from about 1500 BCE

The roads began were built by the Romans

The first trade routes date villages and towns

Traders transported goods such to visit markets and to trade goods

as silk

Some of the best roads of the and spices from one place to
ancient world another

2 Both these reasons explain why the wheel was so important.

1 Coaches, carts and wagons could travel twice as fast to new places.
2 Wheeled vehicles could transport heavy loads over long distances.

Write how each reason helped the people of the ancient world.
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Reason 2: _______________________________________________
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