Who Were the Ancient Greeks Lesson Presentation

Year One
History | Ancient Greece | Who Were the Ancient Greeks? | Lesson 1
Ancient Greece
History

You will spot question marks at certain points in
this Lesson Presentation.
Question Marks
The assessment questions that appear will enable you to check your understanding against the lesson aim and success criteria.

Success Criteria
Aim
To explore some of the key events during the ancient Greek period.
I can use and understand the terms ‘trade’, ‘civilisation’ and ‘chronologically’.
I can discuss when the ancient Greek period was in relation to other periods in world history.
I can order key events chronologically during a period in history.

Remember It
Where Is Modern Greece?
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What do you know about Greece?
Tell your partner anything you know about modern Greece.
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What things did you already know?
Greece has borders with Albania, Bulgaria,
North Macedonia and Turkey.
Greece has the longest coastline in Europe
and the mainland is mostly mountains.
Greece has over 1000 islands. The largest of these is Crete.
The warm climate and proximity to the coast help
to make Greece a popular holiday destination.
Athens is the capital of Greece.
Athens
Crete
Remember It

What Do We Know about Ancient Greece?
The dates we will be learning about regarding ancient Greece all end in the letters BC.
BC stands for Before Christ and refers to any date before the year Christians believe Jesus was born. The Romans who introduced this calendar had no symbol for zero and the year that Jesus was born was called Year 1.
AD stands for Anno Domini and is a medieval Latin phrase that means, ‘In the year of our Lord’. AD is used for dates after the point Christians believe Jesus was born.
What do you already know about ancient Greece?
Do you know what BC stands for?
Some dates use BC and some use AD.

What Do We Know about
Ancient Greece?
You may find it surprising to learn that ancient Greece was not a country.
It was a civilisation made up of city states. Another way of saying city state is ‘polis’ which means city in Greek.
In this context, the word ‘civilisation’ is used to describe a human society with well-developed rules and a government. Technology and the arts are often considered important.
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What other civilisations have you learnt about?

What Do We Know about
Ancient Greece?
These city states made their own rules and lived alongside one another. Often there were battles between
these city states but sometimes they would
join together against a common enemy.
Important city states of ancient Greece
included Athens, Corinth and Sparta.
Click on the map to zoom!
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Map showing ancient Greece around 750 BC

Settlements developed along the coast as the sea provided a good source of food and allowed them to trade with people from other countries and city states.
To trade means to exchange (or to buy and sell) objects or services with others.
What sorts of things might the ancient Greeks have traded?
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What Do We Know about
Ancient Greece?

Items that the city states traded between one
another and with other countries included:
What Do We Know about
Ancient Greece?

Where does ancient Greece fit in with some of the other periods in history that you may have learnt about? What do you notice about ancient Greece in comparison to other periods?
3500 BC
AD 1500
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Rome
Maya Civilisation
AD 1
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Ancient Greece in Time

You will chronologically order some important events from ancient Greek times using the Ancient Greece Timeline Ordering Activity Sheet.
Cut out the timeline pictures and order them chronologically onto the timeline.
Chronologically means the order in which the events happened.
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Ordering Events Chronologically

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Ordering Events Chronologically

Ancient Greece’s Influence

Write down a question for your partner to answer about something that you have learnt about ancient Greece in today’s session.
When you are both ready, ask each other the questions that you have written down.
Asking Questions
What else would you like to know about ancient Greece? Think of a question and share it with your partner.

Success Criteria
Aim
To explore some of the key events during the ancient Greek period.
I can use and understand the terms ‘trade’, ‘civilisation’ and ‘chronologically’.
I can discuss when the ancient Greek period was in relation to other periods in world history.
I can order key events chronologically during a period in history.