3.1 Meet the Greeks

AGE 2. The Time of Greeks and Romans
3.1 Meet the Greeks

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AGE 2. The Time of Greeks and Romans
3.1 Meet the Greeks

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What is this lesson about?
Because of the high mountains and rocky grounds in Greece, people used ships to trade and to find new fertile land. These colonies would be independent city-states, or poleis. They would be set up like most Greek cities, with a market (agora) and temple district (Acropolis).





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What you can explain /  do after this lesson
  • What a polis is
  • Why trade was important for the Greeks
  • Why the Greeks created colonies
  • How to organise Greek history into different ages
  • What a Greek polis looked like

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Word Duty






Colony: a new city that was started overseas
Polis (plural: poleis): Greek city-state
Agora: the main marketplace in a polis
Acropolis: the inner keep of the city where most of the temples were
Dark ages: time historians cannot “see”, because there is no information about it
Oral Tradition: stories are not written down, but passed on from person to person by telling

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










KEY WORDS

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TIMELINE of this CHAPTER

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Greeks

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1a. Read "Geography of Greece". 

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Geography of Greece
  • Colony: New city where there was better soil. Strong links with the old city
  • Greek colony's in many different lands (France, Turkey, Italy etc.)
  • Trade by sea became very important

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1a. Read "Geography of Greece".
What was NOT typical for the Greek landscape?
A
high mountains
B
much farmland
C
rocky ground
D
many islands

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1b. What problems did this cause for the Greeks?



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1c. How did the Greeks solve these problems?
A
They bought their food from the Egyptians
B
They started colonies where they could farm and traded by sea.
C
They conquered lands and took their food
D
They changed the landscape so it would be more fit for farming

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 Read "The Greek city states 

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Greek City States
  • Polis: City with their own goverment, coin and army
  • These poleis were their own independent states

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2a. Read "The Greek city states ". What was a polis?



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2b. What does a polis have that makes it more than just a city?




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2c. What did a polis NOT have?
A
its own government
B
its own army
C
its own coins
D
its own language

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Previous lesson

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3. Read "Greek gods in the city". Why do you think the Greek poleis stored their gold in the temple of their favourite god? Discuss with a partner.

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Akropolis
  • The Greeks would keep their gold safe in the highest and best defended point in the city
  • They believed the gods in the tempel would help protect them and their valuables

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4a. Look at the map.
Why was Piraeus important for Athens?

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4b. Look at the map.
Why do you think did the Athenians build the
“long walls” you see on the source?

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5. Why was trade important for the Greeks? Give two reasons.

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6. Is it correct to say that a polis needed wood for trade? Explain.

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7. There were many different poleis in Greece that all had their own acropolis and city wall. What does that say about their relationship?


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Dates:
Criteria:
Name:
8. Read "Greek History" and complete this overview.
Classical Period
Hellenistic Period
Mycenaean Period
Dark Ages
We know little about this period
Language (Linear B), art (statues looked straight ahead)
Greek empires dominated the 
Near East
architecture (big temples etc.) and long wars
323 - 146 BC
1100 - 750 BC
500 - 323 BC
1600 - 1100 BC

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disuniting factors
uniting factors
9. Some historians say that Greece was disunited: it was not one country, but a collection of different countries (city-states).

Other historians say that Greece, despite the different city-states, was still one united country.
Let’s look at both views:


they spoke the same language
they lived in poleis
poleis often fought each other
they worshipped the same gods
poleis had their own armies and laws 
poleis fought together against a foreign enemy

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

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congratulations

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Name two things you learned

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