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Homes Grand palaces

The kings and queens of
A home is a house or building in Europe were very rich and
lived in magnificent palaces
which you live. That home might be and castles. They feasted in
built of canvas, stone, bricks, wood, great halls and received
or ice. It could even be carved out of visitors in grand
throne rooms.
solid rock. Homes can be built
separately as single, detached
houses or built together as row

houses or terraces. Some homes are
built on top of each together in blocks
called apartments.

Some early
people built simple
Early homes grass shelters.
Some early people made The layering of
their homes in caves or grasses is called Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany
holes dug into sides thatching.
of mountains and hills.
Others cut down trees to
build simple wooden huts, Eco homes Solar panels on
the roof make
which they draped with Today, some homes are energy from
animal skins. specially built to work with sunshine.
the natural world, or
Caves were environment. They don't use
easy to turn up as much energy as
into homes, as
they didn't have ordinary homes.
to be built!

Caves in
Cappadocia,
Turkey

Walls have
added layers
Rainwater is to save heat
collected for (this is called
reuse. insulation).

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