Paragraph 3.5 - Alexander the Great - 2024

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Today
Paragraph 3.5 - Alexander the Great 

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

At the end of the lesson you will know/be able to…
  • making notes using a Cornell scheme (?)
  • name the four major battles between the Greeks and Persians in the fifth century BC 
  • why the battles are important Western history/mythmakers 

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

How it started

  • +/-500 BC: Ionian coastal area has Greek poleis ruled by Persians
  • 492 BC: Athens supports rebel poleis in Ionia, rebels crushed by Persian overlords
  • Persia to war against Athens to punish them

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

Marathon
  • 490 BC: Athens leading a small Greek army (without Sparta) at Marathon and defeats the Persians
  • Sparta had a religious festival  

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

Let's do that again
  • 480 BC: Xerxes, son of the previous Persian king attacks main land Greece to conquer it
  • Battle of Thermopylea: 300 Spartans with one of their king (Leonidas) die, Athens is burned to the ground 

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

Slide 7 - Video

But...
The Persian fleet gets destroyed at the battle of Salamis (Athens is in charge there) and the other Spartan king leads an army composed of a lot of Greek poleis to victory against the Persians at Plataea (479 BC)

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

Slide 9 - Video

We won and then we fight
The myth of the 'West' (no notes, just a side note)
Read together 'Peloponnesian War: Greeks fighting Greeks' and 'The rise of Macadon' (TB 67)
Make in duo's exercise 2 up to and including 4 (WB 99-101) 

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

Today
Paragraph 3.5 - Alexander the Great - part two

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

At the end of the lesson you will know/be able to…
  • broadly point out where Alexander the Great went on his conquests
  • explain that historical research is (sometimes) not just reading books
  • explain that Cleopatra was Greek

Slide 12 - Tekstslide

Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia and India 

Slide 13 - Tekstslide

Practical historical research
Read together 'King Alexander' (TB 67-8) and exercise 7 (WB 102)

Slide 14 - Tekstslide

Slide 15 - Video

Make exercise 7 (WB 102), read 'After Alexander's death' (TB 68) and make exercise 8 a (WB 103)
Checking after 10 minutes 
timer
10:00

Slide 16 - Tekstslide

Branding the known world
Read together 'The Hellenistic Period' (TB 69)
Make exercise 9 and 11 (WB 103-5)

Slide 17 - Tekstslide