1. Ancient Greece (1500BC-400AD)

2. Lesson Objectives
To identify the key features of Ancient Greek Society
To compare features of Greek and Egyptian societies in the Ancient World

3. What do you already know about Greece?
Feel free to sing along!
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4. What do you already know about Greece?
Feel free to sing along!
Before you begin this task watch these two highly classy film clips to refresh you mind!

5. An area not a country.
Cities developed into states and ruled the surrounding countryside.
Traded
Shared language
Believed in Gods
Olympics

6. Hephaestos was the god of fire
Hephaestos was the god of fire. He was a blacksmith and the Greeks believed that the smoke and flames from a volcano were created by him when he worked in his forge.

7. Civilisation (600BC – 300BC) Class based society
Science, philosophy and mathematics important
Replaced supernatural ideas with rational (scientific) ones
Famous thinkers include – Pythagorus, Socrates, Hippocrates, Homer, Aristotle

8. First medical knowledge came from the poems of Homer
First medical knowledge came from the poems of Homer. They talked about the siege at Troy and of the soldiers who fought in the war. Doctors were described as giving common sense treatments to the warriors.
Thus spoke he and bade Paegon heal. And Paegon putting the pain allaying herbs on Ares wound healed him

9. Complete the A3 sheet using Pages 20-21 of the text book.
EXT – answer questions 1-2

10. Was it very different from the Egyptians?