Starter quiz
- If you wanted to buy vegetables in Ancient Greece, where would you go?
- to the temple
- to the acropolis
- to the agora ✓
- to the gymnasium
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- What was different between the city-states of Ancient Greece?
- language
- landscape ✓
- weather ✓
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- What did Ancient Greeks do at the theatre?
- sell things
- worship gods
- do excercise
- watch plays ✓
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- Complete the sentence. Ancient Greece was organised by splitting it into smaller areas called ______.
- 'city-states' ✓
- Greek myths were usually stories about who?
- gods and godesses ✓
- children
- people from other cultures
- men in the army
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- Complete the sentence. Sparta and ______ fought each other in the Peloponnesian War.
- 'Athens' ✓
Exit quiz
- What small areas was Ancient Greece divided into?
- city-states ✓
- counties
- districts
- regions
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- What did people do in an agora in Ancient Greece?
- buy or sell things ✓
- pray to their gods
- hold a debate
- keep fit
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- The queen of the gods in ancient Greece was ______.
- 'Hera' ✓
- Match the words to the definitions.
- council⇔a group of men that would run a city in Ancient Greece ✓
- acropolis⇔an area built at the highest point in a city in Ancient Greece ✓
- vote⇔to make a choice, usually in an election ✓
- polis⇔meaning city-state in Ancient Greek ✓
- What sort of conclusions do historians make?
- generalisations ✓
- exclamations
- superstitions
- accusations
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- A person's description of people, places or events from the past is their ______ of it.
- 'account' ✓
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Key learning points
- Ancient Greece was a varied collection of different city-states and people with many differences between them.
- However, there were many similarities in their culture e.g. common myths, religion, the existence of enslaved people.
- Historians try to make generalisations about the places and people they investigate.
- Historians cannot always include everything they know about a place or a people in their accounts.
- A good explanation of what best represents what Ancient Greece was like will use knowledge from across this unit.
Common misconception
That everything we read about the past is always true.
Historians try to tell as accurate a story about the past as possible by carefully investigating and studying evidence. Sometimes though, historians do not always agree with each other especially about finer details, and so make generalisations.
Keywords
Generalisation - a generalisation is when you say something that is not specific to a certain group of people, place or time
Account - an account is a version of events that may have happened in the past
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