Starter quiz
- Match the countries to the continent they are located in.
- Italy⇔Europe ✓
- China⇔Asia ✓
- Egypt⇔Africa ✓
- Canada⇔North America ✓
- What do we call objects or items that were left behind in the past and then found later in history?
- ruins
- exhibits
- artefacts ✓
- oddities
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- Complete the sentence. Greece has a coastline on the Mediterranean ______.
- 'Sea' ✓
- Which of these is a written source of information about the past?
- a portrait of a person at work
- a statue of a significant person
- a text in an ancient language ✓
- a preserved piece of pottery
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- Put the periods of history in order. Start with the earliest.
- 1⇔Stone Age
- 2⇔Bronze Age
- 3⇔Iron Age
- People who study the past and help us to develop our understanding of it are called what?
- teachers
- historians ✓
- presenters
- students
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Exit quiz
- Which natural features created barriers between city-states in Ancient Greece?
- mountains ✓
- walls
- fences
- forests
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- Which sea does Greece have a coastline on?
- North Sea
- Dead Sea
- Irish Sea
- Mediterranean Sea ✓
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- Match the words to the definitions.
- colony⇔people live away from their home country but still controlled by it ✓
- state⇔a group of people with a government in a particular area of land ✓
- city-state⇔a city that rules itself and the land around it ✓
- Complete the sentence. Greece has thousands of small ______ that are separate to the mainland.
- 'islands' ✓
- Put the sentences in the correct order to briefly describe the history of Ancient Greece. Start with the earliest event.
- 1⇔Ancient Greece began around 900 BCE.
- 2⇔Hundreds of city-states were formed.
- 3⇔Athens became the most important city-state.
- 4⇔Greek colonies were formed in Europe, Africa and Asia.
- 5⇔The Roman Empire stopped Ancient Greece from expanding.
- 6⇔Ancient Greece ended around 31 BCE.
- Complete the sentence. Ancient Greek civilisation developed ______ the Sumerian, Egyptian, Indus and Shang civilisations.
- 'after' ✓
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Key learning points
- Ancient Greece was in the eastern Mediterranean and at its peak spread to other parts of Europe, Africa and Asia.
- Greece is mountainous with thousands of islands, leading to many smaller states making up Ancient Greece.
- The Ancient Greek civilisation began c. 900 BCE and lasted until roughly 31 BCE.
- By 750 BCE, it had colonies in Italy and Sicily but the decline of Ancient Greece coincided with the rise of the Romans.
- Ancient Greek civilisation developed after the Sumerian, Egyptian, Indus and Shang civilisations.
Common misconception
Ancient Greece and Greece are exactly the same place.
Modern-day Greece is part of the area that made up Ancient Greece, but it is smaller than Ancient Greece; the extent of the spread of Ancient Greece changed over time.
Keywords
Barrier - a barrier is something that blocks the way or stops something from happening; barriers can be natural features like rivers or human-made like walls
City-state - a city-state is a city that rules itself and the land around it
Colony - a colony is a place where people settle away from but under the control of their home country
Romans - Romans were the people of a civilisation based in Italy that grew to dominate the Mediterranean region
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