Starter quiz
- Match each city-state to the type of society it is known for.
- Athens⇔seafaring ✓
- Sparta⇔militaristic ✓
- What are Greek myths?
- three sisters from Ancient Greece
- stories about Greek gods and goddessess ✓
- battles fought between city-states
- places where men had debates
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- Match the Ancient Greek gods and goddesses to the correct facts.
- Zeus⇔king of the gods ✓
- Hera⇔queen of the gods ✓
- Ares⇔son of Zeus and Hera ✓
- Hades⇔king of the underworld ✓
- Demeter⇔goddess of the harvest ✓
- Persephone⇔daughter of Demeter ✓
- In Ancient Greek culture, where were the 12 most important gods and goddesses believed to live?
- Athens
- Mount Olympus ✓
- the underworld
- Sparta
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- In Ancient Greek culture, who made sure that destiny was fulfilled? The ______
- 'Fates' ✓
- True or false? The underworld was an Ancient Greek city-state.
- True
- False ✓
Exit quiz
- In Ancient Greece, what was a polis?
- a city-state ✓
- a marketplace
- a person
- a temple
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- Which of these was a marketplace in Ancient Greece?
- acropolis
- gymnasium
- agora ✓
- theatre
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- In Ancient Greece, people were entertained by watching ______.
- 'plays' ✓
- Match the places to the descriptions.
- Parthenon⇔a temple built high on a hill in Athens ✓
- acropolis⇔an area built high up overlooking the city ✓
- agora⇔a place where goods were bought and sold ✓
- gymnasium⇔a place where men were allowed but women were not ✓
- worship⇔what people did in temples in Ancient Greece ✓
- Which of these was the same in all the city-states of Ancient Greece?
- language ✓
- culture ✓
- weather
- landscape
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- Complete the name of this Ancient Greek polis: C______.
- 'Corinth' ✓
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Key learning points
- Ancient Greece was made up of many city-states (polises) like Athens, Sparta and Corinth.
- All the Greek polises spoke the same language and worshipped the same gods; they had a shared culture.
- Although all polises were different, they had some similarities such as the agora, a big marketplace.
- In each polis, a temple was built at the highest point of the city (the acropolis).
- Each polis also had a gymnasium for men to exercise in, and a theatre where plays were performed.
Common misconception
The city-states had only differences; they had nothing common with each other.
The biggest link between the city-states is that they were all part of Ancient Greece. They must have had similarities as well as differences because they were all part of the same ancient civilisation.
Keywords
City-state - a city-state is a city that rules itself and the land around it
Polis - a polis is the Ancient Greek word for a city-state
Culture - culture is the language, customs, ideas, and art of a particular group of people
Temple - a temple is a building where a god or gods are worshipped
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