3.2 People of Greece

What is this lesson about?
The Greeks viewed inhabitants of the poleis differently, as some were citizens, slaves, foreigners or women. Most important were the citizens that were trained as hoplites and made their money from owning land. The Greeks did a lot of trade, in oil and wine, but also looked down on this.






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What is this lesson about?
The Greeks viewed inhabitants of the poleis differently, as some were citizens, slaves, foreigners or women. Most important were the citizens that were trained as hoplites and made their money from owning land. The Greeks did a lot of trade, in oil and wine, but also looked down on this.






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AGE 2. The Time of Greeks and Romans
3.1 The Greek World

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What you can explain /  do after this lesson
  • make a social pyramid of the people of a Greek polis
  • explain how people could become slaves
  • explain why Greeks traded oversees
  • explain why only wealthy Greeks could be hoplites

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Word Duty






Metoiks: people that were born in a different polis
Slave: person owned by someone else, slaves were at the bottom of the social pyramid
Lower class: (poor) working people with little power
Upper class: ruling class of people
Middle class: social layer of merchants and such individuals
Hoplite: Greek citizen-soldier, heavily armoured
Phalanx: close hoplite formation


Link to WRTS wordlist for all the other difficult words: WRTS HISTORY










KEY WORDS

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Read 'The society of Athens'
Into which four social layers or categories were
the people of Athens divided?


Slide 5 - Open question

2. Did women have the same rights as men everywhere in Ancient Greece? Explain your answer.




Slide 6 - Open question

3b. Which of these is NOT a way to become a slave in Ancient Greece?

A
You were taken prisoner during a war
B
You were born as a slave, because your parents were slaves
C
You had too many debts
D
You had broken the law

Slide 7 - Quiz

4. In the theory the layers of the social pyramid are discussed.
Create the social pyramid in the scheme below.

foreigners
citizens


slaves


free men

Slide 8 - Drag question

5. The women and children are not in the pyramid you made. Do you think there should be a fifth layer for women and children? Or do you think the women and children should have their own layer for each group you wrote down?

Slide 9 - Open question

6. Read "Colonies" and "Greeks and other people"

If you were an Ancient Greek farmer that grew olives, what was the smartest thing to do with your olives?


Slide 10 - Open question

7. In this exercise you will practise Skill 7: Drawing conclusions
from studying sources.
Greek merchants sold wine and oil in beautifully painted pottery.
You can find a drawing of such a vase here.
Vases such as these prove that there was specialised labour in Ancient Greece.
Explain how.


Slide 11 - Open question

8a. Look up a map of Greece on the internet, for instance via Google Maps.
Make sure you put it on Satellite image instead of roadmap!
Why did Greek traders sail around Greece? Use the map in your answer.



Slide 12 - Open question

9a. In this exercise you will practise Skill 7: Drawing conclusions from studying sources.
Look at the source to answer the questions.

What are these people doing?

Slide 13 - Open question

9b. What information can you get from the source about this trade?

Slide 14 - Open question

9c. So is trade in Ancient Greece very different from when you buy (for example)
apples at the local supermarket? Explain your answer.

Slide 15 - Open question

Write down one question about something from this lesson that you find difficult.

Slide 16 - Open question

11.
return
shield
expensive
on it
hoplon
heavy
armour
mothers
hoplites

Slide 17 - Drag question

12a. In this exercise you will practise Skill 3: Causes and effects: explaining events and developments. 
In question 8 you had to find out why only rich people fought in the phalanx. In the theory, it says that the phalanx was the most powerful part of the army.

You can identify series of causes when things happen in history. Example: John dropped his apple. > An apple tree started to grow. > Now we can pick apples here.
Now you create a series of causes from the following facts. Drag the sentences at the bottom to the correct place.

Some rich Greek soldiers had bronze armour made
Soldiers in bronze armour 
were better equipped than others
Bronze was the strongest material the Greeks knew, but it was very expensive.

Slide 18 - Drag question

12b. What effect do you expect this had on Greek society?


A
Rich people were happy to fight, but they wanted to have a bigger say in the fighting and therefore in politics too.
B
Poor people were very happy, as they did not need to fight often.
C
Rich people became angry, as they always had to bring their armour to the smithy to get all the dents out after fighting.
D
Poor people were angry because they felt that they too had the right to fight for their polis

Slide 19 - Quiz

congratulations

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