Ancient Greeks timeline

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Read the text about the Peloponesian war. 

Text

What were the causes for the Peloponnesian war?

Sparta was good on ...

1. Land
2. water
3. Land and water
4. sky

What did the athenians do to bother the Spartans and vice versa?

 Put the dates and events in chronological order and complete the timeline

457 BC 

480 BC

421 BC

499 BC 

404 BC

492 BC

431 BC 

Peloponnesian Wars

First “peace” of Peloponnesian War

1st Persian War

2nd Persian War

Athens started trying to steal Spartan allies

Battle of Marathon

Athens surrenders

Battle at Thermopylae

Start of Peloponnesian war

Ionian rebellion

Read 2.4

Zeus

Hera

Apollo

Hades

Poseidon

Ares

Athena

Hephaistos

2. Make the correct connections

God of the sea

God of war

king of the gods

goddess of wisdom

god of music + the sun

goddess 

of matrimony

god of metallurgy and fire

god of the under

world 

spear and shield

thunder

bolt

trident

sun

anvil

peacock

owl

three headed dog

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

A. __________kept the temple upright.

B. __________, band of sculpture along the temple. Used to show stories and  honour the gods.

C. ___________, the triangular at the  

top of the temple.

D. ___________ with  steps so that people could get up on the plateau.

3. Read "Greek architecture". You must also use internet to find informormation to do this task.

 First: drag the four words (left) to their correct place in the text (right).

The green boxes with letters A, B, C, D represent the text lines A, B, C, D in the yellow box.

Second: drag the green boxes to the correct Roman numerals I, II, III, IV. 

A

B

C

D

Frieze

Pillars

Plateau

Tympanum

A. __________kept the temple upright.

B. __________, band of sculpture along the temple. Used to show stories and  honour the gods.

C. ___________, the triangular at the  

top of the temple.

D. ___________ with  steps so that people could get up on the plateau.

3. Read "Greek architecture". You must also use internet to find informormation to do this task.

 First: drag the four words (left) to their correct place in the text (right).

The green boxes with letters A, B, C, D represent the text lines A, B, C, D in the yellow box.

Second: drag the green boxes to the correct Roman numerals I, II, III, IV. 

A

B

C

D

Frieze

Pillars

Plateau

Tympanum