The History of Ancient Greece
Our basic objectives in this lessons are to:
- Gain an understanding of the history of Ancient Greece with a special emphasis on the Bronze and Dark Ages
Ancient Greece’s history is a long one with many civilizations coming and going. The main periods of history are:
- The Neolithic (stone) Age
- The Bronze Age
- The Dark Ages
- The Archaic Age
- The Classical Age
- The Hellenistic Age
The Archaic to Hellenistic Age are not vital to your understanding of Greek Mythology so we will not spend much time on them. The other ages are important though. To read about this go to www.ancient-greece.org/history.html. Examine the timeline on that page then read through “A Concise History of Ancient Greece”.
TASK:
- Put up a relevant heading in your notes
- Write down each age with its time period (e.g. 3000BC – 1000BC) You should be able to get this from the timeline.
- For each age write two to three sentences summary (don’t copy) and draw a simple picture that visually sums up that period for you. Or alternatively find a relevant picture on the internet and glue it in.
- DON’T DO A SUMMARY FOR THE ARCHAIC – HELENISTIC AGE. I WILL COVER THIS LATER. PLEASE READ ABOUT THEM THOUGH.
This work is to emailed or faxed to me on Wednenesday (day or night)
HOMEWORK TASK
Each one of you is to prepare a short (no more than 5 minutes) presentation on a designated aspect of Ancient Greek History. This is to provide a bit of extra depth on important content and will be given during the next video conference lesson.
- Corey – The Mycenaean Civilization
- Lucy – The Minoan Civilization
- Sam – The Cycladic Civilization
Go beyond the information that is provided in the website I have linked. What interesting facts can you find? Make sure you start off by showing where your civilization was. You can present this in the form of a :
- PowerPoint presentation with visuals. Just email me the PPT and I will bring it up for you to use in the VC lesson
- OR – A talk with pictures you show under the document camera
- OR - some other form of presentation
It is not a big presentation so don’t get carried away. Concentrate on the things you found interesting.
If you do a google search on “Ancient Greece” you will find a number of useful sites. Wikipedia is good.
Due in the next VC lesson
