2.1. Life in a Greek city-state

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2.1. Life in a Greek city-state

means of subsistence	hunter-gatherer	culture
history	prehistoric times	social differences
economy	politics	agriculture

Good research question

bad research question

Who are the Greeks?

How did hunter-gathers live 7500 years ago in what is now the West Netherlands?

What is the meaningof life in the 21st century in the Netherlands?

Why did hunter-gathers start using agriculture?

Why did the people in what is now England build Stonehenge 5000 years ago?

A good research question:

1. 3 (or 4) W's (what/who, when, where)

2. Actually something you cán research

1. reading in silence
2. Life in a Greek city-state
3. break
4. processing the new information
5. conclusion
6. myth of the week

 

Question of the day:

What different groups lived in Greek city-states?

In Silence

• read page 54-55
• Make page 57
• Ready? Read 2.1 (page 59-61)
• 10 minutes 

explanation (make notes) 

The Greek world

• 450 BC: The Greeks live in 700 city-states
• Most of them were at the coast
• Every polis made its own laws
• Stil: same Gods, and everyone spoke Greek

Greek citizens

• There was a lot of inequality 
• Free people versus slaves
• Male citizens had citizenship rights: defending the polis in exchange for voting rights
• First: only the rich. Later: poor farmers and craftsmen too
• The rest: women, foreigners and slaves.

top

middle

bottom

citizens

slaves

women and foreigners

Daily life

• Most people were farmers (grain, grapes and olives)
• this was difficult so they traded al lot
• Strict division of tasks 

1. Men were the head of the family
2. Women were under the control of men

• We don't know what women thought of this themselves
• Why do you think that is?  
  

Processing the new information

make 2.1:1-13

finished: try to write a short answer to the learning question:

What different groups lived in Greek city-states?

(hand in on SOM)

Whispering is allowed

What different groups lived in Greek city-states (and what were their roles)?