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Ancient Greece
Key Stage 2 History
Who were the ancient Greeks?
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Ancient Greece
When and where was
Ancient Greece?
The Ancient
Greeks at war
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City States
Athens and Sparta
Greek gods and
goddesses
Ancient Greek
theatre
The Olympic
Games
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Section 1
When and where was ancient
Greece?
In this section you will find out where
ancient Greece was and when the
ancient Greeks lived. You will also learn
how we know about the ancient Greeks.
Ancient Greece Timeline 1
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ThisChronological
timeline shows
some
Order
Historians
put events
that happened
in the
important
events
in ancient
past
in an
according to the date or
Palace
of order
Mycenaean
Greek
history.
First Olympic
The
Trojan
time they happened. We call this order
Minoan
civilisation in Knossos civilisation in
Horse story
chronological
order. The date that is the
Crete
built
Greece
Games
held
comes 1500
first and
date come 776BC
2000 BCearliest
1900 BC
BC the latest
1100 BC
afterwards.
20001500 BC
Earliest
800 BC
Earliest
684 BC
15001100 BC
138 BC
1100Latest
Dark Ages
800 BC
800600 BC
Latest
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A school room in ancient Athens
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Listen to
a lyre
Education in Athens
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 Hanging on
the wall is an
instrument called
a lyre.
“A perfect mind in a perfect body”
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Education was very important in Athens.
Schools were only for the rich.
At school, boys learned
reading, writing,
Boys started going to 2school atgrammar,
the age
 A teacher
maths, music and oratory.
instructing the boys
of seven. Classrooms were small.
Girls,
The
works
of famous poets like
at school.
were learned off by
who could not be seen alone Homer
in public,
heart. Boys began sports and
were not allowed to go to school
or
gymnastics at the age of 12.
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learn to play sports. They were taught
 The boys
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at
home
by
their
mothers.
They
would
 The boys sat
wrote with a stylus
on wooden
was
onto a wax tablet. cook,
weave anddoReading
housework.
stools or a
bench.
done from a papyrus
parchment roll.
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Ancient Greece at war with Persia
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What caused the war?
The
Persian
Empire
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Aegean Sea
3
Ancient Greece
2
Olympia
Athens
4
Sparta
Mediterranean Sea
Ancient
Greece
Persian
Empire
 Greece sends an
army
to defend
the
 Persia
attacks

The
Greek
army

The
Persian
army
colonies.
Greek
colonies.
Ancient Greece
leaves Persia.
attacks
Greece.
490 BC
and Persia at war.
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Was the Battle of Marathon a great
victory for the ancient Greeks?
Yes
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No
Assessment
Giving a balanced answer
Write an answer to the following question:-
Was the Battle of Marathon a great
victory for the ancient Greeks?
[10 marks]
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Greek theatre masks
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C made of
Greek theatre masks were
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baked clay, stiffened linen or cork.
Comedy
Tragedy
Real hair was used Serious
for the and
head
These plays were funny,
sad plays
and fun
beard.
The mouth
wasright
always
often poking
at rulers.
about
and wrong.
A very large. This allowed the voice
of the actor to carry to the back of D
the theatre. There were different
expressions on masks for Greek
comedies and tragedies.
The ancient Greeks loved watching plays. If
Can you tell which of these masks
they did not like the play they would throw
were for a comedy and which were
food and even stones at the actors.
for History
a tragedy?
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The Olympic Games
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The ancient Greeks liked to take part in sports because it
kept them fit and strong and made them better fighters
in war. The Greeks held the first Olympic Games in the
year 776 BC in Olympia. They had only one event, a
sprint. Women were not allowed to compete in the
Games nor to watch them, because the Olympic Games
were dedicated to Zeus and were therefore meant for
men. Greek women had their own games called Heraia
held in honour of Hera, Zeus’ wife. Only Spartan women
really liked sports.
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Ancient Olympia
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In 456BC, the Temple of Zeus was built in
Olympia. More people came to the Games
as they all
wanted
to seethe
the Olympic
statue of Zeus.
Every
four
years,
Games
The statue was 13m tall!
were held
in the city of Olympia. Male athletes from cities
all over ancient Greece took part. The city states
of Greece were usually at war against each
other, but for the month when the Games took
place, everyone agreed there would be peace
oldest
eventlitofand
the Olympic
and no fighting. An OlympicThe
torch
was
Games was called the stadion.
taken to every state in Greece
before
Runners
sprintedbeing
for 1 stade, the
length ofceremony.
the stadium (192m). The
carried to the Olympic opening
track was wide enough for 20
people. Many other sports were
This is a model of what Olympia
looked
added
as the Games became
like. Today Olympia is in ruins. more popular.
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Ancient Greece Keywords
Archaeologists
People who are trained to find and dig up objects.
Archer
A soldier who fights using bow and arrows.
Civilizations
The way of life of a group of people.
Colonies
Land the ancient Greeks controlled outside Greece.
Conquered
To take over and control another country.
‘Dark Ages’
The time after the collapse of the early civilisations that lived in
Greece, 1000 BC to 800 BC.
Government
The group of people who run the country. Athens and Sparta had
different types of government.
Grammar
The rules about how words and sentences are put together.
Marble
A very hard rock that was used for building.
Philosophers
A great thinker about the world around them.
Terracotta
Red clay used for making pottery.
Trade
Selling and exchanging goods.
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