Starter quiz
- Match the Ancient Greek word to its description.
- polis⇔an Anciety Greek city state ✓
- agora⇔a market place in Ancient Greece ✓
- acropolis⇔an area built high-up overlooking the city ✓
- What is the correct definition of a city-state in Ancient Greece?
- a country ruled by a king
- a city that rules itself ✓
- a state which has lots of cities in it
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- Which was one of the largest city-states in Ancient Greece?
- Athens ✓
- Delos
- Aegina
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- True or false: There are many legacies of Ancient Greece that still exist in the modern world.
- True ✓
- False
- Which of the below are Ancient Greek legacies that still exist today?
- mosaics used in architecture
- democracy as a form of government ✓
- hieroglyphics as a form of writing
- stone columns used in architecture ✓
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- What is the name of the famous temple at the top of acropolis in Athens?
- The Colosseum
- The Parthenon ✓
- The Pyramids
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Exit quiz
- Which of the below are locations that relate to the Persian Empire?
- Metasiopoma ✓
- Athens
- Babylon ✓
- Corinth
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- Why had there been many wars to gain control of Mesopotamia?
- There were two rivers that flowed through it. ✓
- There was a democratic government.
- Areas around the rivers were good for farming. ✓
- There were valuable gold mines .
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- What was the name of the king who ruled over the early Persian Empire?
- 'Cyrus' ✓
- Which country did Cambyses and the Persian army take control of to expand their territory?
- Egypt ✓
- Greece
- Persia
- India
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- Which statements about the Persian king Darius are correct?
- He was king around 490 BCE. ✓
- He took control over lands in the Indus Valley. ✓
- He wanted to expand the Persian Empire territories further. ✓
- He only wanted to expand into territories to the North.
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- Which ancient civilisation was Persia in conflict for about 50 years from 499 BCE to 449 BCE?
- 'Ancient Greece' ✓
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Key learning points
- In Mesopotamia, where Sumer had once flourished, warring city-states continued to vie for supremacy.
- Cyrus, king of Persian Achaemenids, conquered the kingdom of Medes and the city of Babylon, creating the Persian Empire.
- Cyrus' son Cambyses went on to conquer Egypt, so that the pharoahs were now controlled by Persia.
- By 490 BCE, a king named Darius ruled over the Persian Empire, adding to it with territory in the Indus Valley.
- Darius wanted to add the Greek city-states to his empire and so the two civilisations went to war.
Common misconception
That the historical places named still exist today.
Over time, names and boundaries of places can change. Some places cease to exist entirely while the locations of some places do still exist but they have a different name today. A large area of Persia for example is in the modern-day country of Iran.
Keywords
Mesopotamia - meaning 'between two rivers', Mesopotamia is the name given to the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Sumer - Sumer was the earliest ancient civilisation to be known about and was located in the south of Mesopotamia
Persian empire - the civilisation that rivalled Ancient Greece to its east was Persia, all the lands they ruled were the Persian Empire
Territory - a territory is an area of land that is far away from a country but is still ruled by the country
Indus valley - the Indus Valley surrounds the River Indus, a powerful river that flows through India and Pakistan