2.1 Ancient Greece - TEACH-

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• Middelbare school
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AGE 2. The Time of Greeks and Romans

Ancient Greece: the cradle of European civilisation

What do you know about Ancient Greece?
Give one word answers.

Ancient Greece is an important  part of our indentity

Everybody has an identity. It's what makes you who you are 

and what makes you different from someone else

What is part of your IDENTITY?
(one word)

Everybody has more than one identity. 

We have many personal identities, but we also

 have many group identities.

Give an example of a group that you belong to.

Being part of a group connects us. 

It makes us feel we belong together.

Your nationality
(the country where you are from)
is also part of your group identity.

1. correct
2. wrong

You are a European.

That is also part of your group identity

1. correct
2. wrong

Your task

The next slides each show a picture of something from MODERN Europe.

In a group you must discuss the question:

What is the link of this picture to ancient Greece?

Then you come up with a group answer.

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?
(not coins or money)

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

Which word links the picture (from Harry Potter) to the Ancient Greeks?

The Greeks shaped our modern European and western culture and identity.

Drag the Greek inventions to their modern counterparts.

storytelling

the Olympic Games

democracy

the alphabet

the name Europe

theaters and plays

architecture

science and mathematics

VIDEO histoclips GRIEKEN

This video is about the 

 Ancient Greeks.

First we watch the video. 

Try to do the drag&drop question.

Drag the 6 topics that are covered in the video to the right.

warfare

architecture

Olympics

technology

mythology

democracy

polis

Greek gods

parthenon

trade and money

This video is mainly about

1. Greek daily life
2. Greek legacy
3. Greek culture
4. Greek politics

Legacy

Dutch: erfgoed / nalatenschap

It is something we inherit from past generations and pass to our future generations. 

Geography of Greece

Greece is a country that borders the Mediterranean Sea. It has many high mountains, rocky ground and islands.

Because of this, there is not a lot of fertile land close together. So to make a living, the Greeks herded sheep and goats on the rocky hillsides. And on the small fertile patches they grew grain and even some olives and figs on trees. In times when there was not enough food, they had to buy it from other places.

Sometimes more drastic measures were needed. They then started a new city in places where there was better soil. This new city, or colony, would have strong links to the old city. Later the colony could trade food with the city from where these colonists originally came from.

You can imagine that because of the high mountains and difficult terrain, trade by land was difficult. So the Greeks used the sea as their highways. They sailed to different lands (like Southern France, Turkey and Italy) to start colonies, to trade or even to fight. This made harbours very important in Greece. Almost every city had one.

source 2.1.1

Map of Ancient Greece, around 500 BC, modern illustration

source 2.1.2

Today, Greece still has high mountains and rocky grounds.

Can we say that ancient Greece was: 

A: one country (a unified state, like the Netherlands today) ? Or, 

B: a collection of different countries (city states) ?

Greece: One country or several countries?

Can we say that ancient Greece was: 

A: one country (a unified state, like the Netherlands today) ? Or, 

B: a collection of different countries (city states) ?

There are arguments for both. For example:

A: One country, because: The people in the different poleis all shared the same:

           

Greece: One country or several countries?

Can we say that ancient Greece was: 

A: one country (a unified state, like the Netherlands today) ? Or, 

B: a collection of different countries (city states) ?

There are arguments for both. For example:

A: One country, because: The people in the different poleis all shared the same:

•               - language
•               - gods
•               - culture

Greece: One country or several countries?

Can we say that ancient Greece was: 

A: one country (a unified state, like the Netherlands today) ? Or, 

B: a collection of different countries (city states) ?

There are arguments for both. For example:

A: One country, because: The people in the different poleis all shared the same:

              - language

              - gods

              - culture

B: Different countries, because the city states had different:

     

Greece: One country or several countries?

Can we say that ancient Greece was: 

A: one country (a unified state, like the Netherlands today) ? Or, 

B: a collection of different countries (city states) ?

There are arguments for both. For example:

A: One country, because: The people in the different poleis all shared the same:

              - language

              - gods

              - culture

B: Different countries, because the city states had different:

•               - governments
•               - coins
•                 And they often fought wars against each other.

Greece: One country or several countries?

Greek Mythology

• A Greek myth is a magical story involving Greek gods,   monsters and heroes.
• The stories are made up but: they have a "life lesson" (be   brave, respect the gods, etc.)
• they may be based on a true event (for example: the Trojan   War)
• Until 800 BC these myths were passed on by oral tradition.   Later, they were written down.

lesson 2.1 : Ancient Greece

GREEK CHRONOLOGY:

• Minoan Civilisation (Crete):                                       3500 - 1100 BC
• Mycenaean Civilisation (mainland Greece)       1600 - 1100 BC
• Dark Ages:                                                                          1100 - 750  BC
• Archaic Period:                                                                  750 - 500 BC
• Classical Period:                                                               500 - 323 BC
• Hellenistic Period:                                                            323 - 146 BC
• Roman Period:                                                                    146 BC .........

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