The document describes housing in several ancient civilizations including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, China, and modern Canada. It notes that Mesopotamian houses were made of mud bricks and centered around temples. Egyptian houses were also constructed of mud and straw bricks. Greek homes typically had a central courtyard and separate living areas for men and women. Chinese houses differed between the poor, who lived in single room structures of packed earth, and the rich, who inhabited large, multi-room complexes within high walled compounds. Canadian homes today usually have grass lawns and flowers out front and are made primarily of wood.

1. By Jonathan

2.  Mesopotamia
 Canada(Modern)
 Egypt
 Greece
 China

3.  Mesopotamia, a Greek word meaning "between the
rivers" was a civilization that flourished between the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq more
than 6,000 years ago, according to The British
Museum. Ancient Mesopotamia had organized
religions and writing systems, and large temples that
formed the center of cities. Its people lived largely in
houses built of mud bricks.

5.  The house we see in the slide before is a house that was
ruined, but you sill can see the shape and the main
roof ,flour and walls.

6.  The Egyptians lived in houses made of bricks. The
bricks were made of mud and chopped straw. They
mixed the mud and straw and then poured the
mixture into molds. The molds were placed in the sun
to bake into hard bricks. When the bricks are hard
they put them together and use some new and wet
mud to stick them on, when the new mud was dry and
hard too, they will stick together. So an Egypt house
was made.

8.  Most homes in ancient Greece had a courtyard, which
was the center of activity. Children could safely play
outside in the warm climate. Homes were divided into
areas for the men and areas for the women. The
Andron was a room reserved for males to entertain
male guests. The room had a separate entrance to the
street so male guests did not have to cross paths with
any of the ladies of the house.

10.  Modern Canada's houses have hidden doors and very
neat paths. In the front yard, there will mostly be some
grass field and some flower, than is the house, then for
the house, it will not be too big, and it will look like a
cube. It is mostly made by woods.

12.  There were really two kinds of houses in ancient China - poor
people's houses (which is most of them) and rich people's
houses (not very many).Poor people's houses were generally just
one room, made of rammed earth (like mudbrick). The roof was
usually made of thatch. These houses were a lot like poor
people's houses in West Asia or Egypt or Greece or Africa.Rich
people's houses were much bigger. They had a high wall made of
rammed earth all the way around them, with no windows and
just one door, to keep the family safe. As soon as you went
through this door, you would see another short wall in front of
you. This was the screen wall, which kept people from seeing
into your courtyard as they walked by, for privacy. All around the
courtyard there were rooms. In a very fancy house there were two
storeys, and a balcony on the inside of the upper storey
overlooking the courtyard.

14.  The Chinese house we see in the slide before is one of
the King’s family’s, so it is a little different than I told
you before.

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