Task 1 

: place the following words in the curved line below.

vanish – progress – disappear – thrive – fade– collapse– start – appear– bloom – emerge –flourish-
evolve – develop – rise – originate – decline – spread – fall to decay – fall to ruins –mature disappear –
start – begin – bloom – expand .

flourish

rise fall
Task 2: Read the following passage and spot the reasons for the development and falling of civilizations.

Civilizations thrived through the rise of agriculture in which stable food supplies and water availability paved
the way for its development. Also, the appearance of multiple jobs in a complex community lead to the
creation of political systems and governments. However, wars, famine, economic collapse, population decline
because of diseases and natural catastrophes are the primary reasons why a civilization might collapse.

Floorishing Falling

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Activity 2 page 18 : Fill in the blanks in the text below with the appropriate words from the table in task1.
Use the correct tense . PS: there are some irrelevant words
History shows that civilizations 1.................... , 2............................ and then 3.........................,
sometimes without a trace. This is the case of ancient Maya civilization in the New World . The Maya
civilization 4.................. in the Yucatan Peninsula in central America about 2000 BC. Later, it 5 ............
. to Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. The Maya civilization 6......................... a form of writing that could
express all types of thought and language. It also 7............................ a highly developed system of
government and of agriculture, as well as an incredibly accurate system for measuring time. It
8.............................. in its classical period between 325-925 A.D . After that, it gradually
9............................. before it finally 10........................... in the fifteenth century, probably because of
diseases, or epidemics, or sudden environmental changes.