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Exercise
Learning pathways LEVEL1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
LEVEL2
LEVEL3
6, 7, 8
9, 10
REMEMBER AND UNDERSTAND 1. Determine whether the following statements are True or False. a. Angkor Thom is older than Angkor Wat.
b. Angkor, when it was the capital of the Khmer Empire, had a population of more than a million people. c. Angkor Wat was built for Buddhist worship, while Bayon Temple in Angkor Thom was built to honour a Hindugod. 2. The building of Angkor Wat was commenced under Jayavarman VII / Suryavarman II and was a shrine to the Hindu / Buddhist god Vishnu. 3. Describe what the words Angkor, baray, wat and Thom mean. 4. Identify approximately how many temples there are in the city of Angkor. A. Around10 B. Around50 C. Around100 D. More than 1000 5. Determine how many times greater was the population of Angkor than the population of London in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. A. 5
B. 15 C. 25 D. 35 ANALYSE AND APPLY
6. Study the map in SOURCE 2 and calculate how many times Angkor Thom is bigger than Angkor Wat. 7. If 300 000 workers and 6000 elephants were needed to construct Angkor Wat, estimate how many might have been needed to build Angkor Thom. 8. Explain why highly specialised artisans would have been needed to create sculptures such as those in SOURCE3 . 9. Several feature films have been made around Angkor. Describe what kinds of impacts this could have had on the buildings. EVALUATE AND COMMUNICATE 10. Evaluate what evidence in this lesson explains why Angkor Wat is better preserved than most of the Angkor site. Answers and sample responses for this topic are available online.
Jacaranda Humanities Alive 8 Victorian Curriculum Third Edition
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