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Classical Connections:
Greek and Roman Historians
500 BC-400 AD
Growth of cultural
exchange 1200 BC-500 AD
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This PowerPoint is the overarching
inquiry question and background
information presented during the
first lesson
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Big History
• The exchange
of ideas across
cultural and
language
groups
became a
dominant
feature of
world history
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Our Inquiry Question
• Why did
historians
write history in
the Classical
World?
• Why did their
audience love
history?
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Archaic Greece
• Homer’s Iliad
and Odyssey
are the first
Classical
literature
shared
between
Greeks and
Romans
• 1000 BC
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Rome Founded
• Romulus and
Remus found
Rome on the
banks of the
Tiber
• History or
myth?
• 753 BC
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Persian Wars
• Persian Empire
attacks Greece
and fails
• 490-479 BC
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Herodotus
• Historian of
the Persian
Wars
 Istoria historia
Meaning
inquiries
• Lived c 484425 BC
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The Peloponnesian War
• Greece’s
‘World War’
• 431 BC –
404 BC
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Thucydides
• A war
‘worth
noting’
• Wrote for
posterity
• A general &
eyewitness
at the
Pelponnesi
an War
• 460-395 BC
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Hannibal crosses the Alps
• Rome and
Carthage fight
for
Mediterranean
supremacy
• 218 BC
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Rome wins Mediterranean
• Rome destroys
Carthage and
conquers the
Greeks
• 202-146 BC
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Polybius
• Records the rise
of Rome and the
conquest of the
Mediterranean
• Wrote to educate
and train leaders
• Lived 203-120 BC
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Catiline’s Conspiracy
• The Roman
republic suffers a
century of crisis
and civil war
• Catiline’s
conspiracy 64-63
BC
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Julius Caesar Assassinated
• General,
politician,
orator,
historian and
dictator
• Murdered 44
BC
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C. Sallustius Crispus
• Sallust
• Roman senator
and historian
• Ally of Caesar
• Wrote in
retirement
• History of
Catiline
• Lived 86-34 BC
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Augustus Emperor
• Octavian ends 100
years of Civil War
and becomes
Imperator (great
General) and
Princeps (first
man)
• 27 BC
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Titus Livius (Livy)
• Historian of the
Roman Republic
from the
foundation to the
present time
• Wrote to record
the greatness of
Rome
• Lived 59 BC-17
AD
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Tiberius’ Terror
• Judicial murder
of dozens of
senators and
leading Roman
families
• 25-37 AD
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Vesuvius Erupts
• Pompeii and
Herculaneum
buried under
volcanic ash and
pumice
• 79 AD
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Tacitus
• Consul, Senator
and historian of
the Roman
Empire
• Wrote to record
merit and expose
evil
• Lived 56-117 AD
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Constantinople founded
• Constantine
founds ‘Second
Rome’ and never
visits Rome
• Establishes
Christianity
• 330 AD
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Julian the Apostate
• Julian renounces
Christianity in
favour of the
traditional Gods
• 360-363 AD
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Ammianus
• Eye-witness and
historian of the
Later Roman Empire
• 325/330–after 391
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The Sack of Rome
• Alaric, King of
the Visigoths
conquers the city
of Rome and
ends its poer in
the western
Empire
• 410 AD
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Acknowledgement
WORLD HISTORY FOR US ALL SLIDE TEMPLATE
CONTENT WHOLLY WRITTEN BY MARK STEVENS
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