Mycenaeans – Late Bronze Age Greece
Mycenaeans: Two women and a child (Mycenae, ca. 1500 BC) Mycenaeans By around 1600 BC, the Greeks had gotten completely mixed with the earlier Lerna people, and began to move [...]
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What was the Ionian revolt?
Theater of Miletus Cyrus the Great In 539 BC, Cyrus the Great made himself the King of Kings. He ruled all of West Asia. Along the coast of Anatolia (modern [...]
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Greek history – Ancient Greece
Satellite view of Greece Between two continents Greece is near West Asia, and at the edge of Europe, the way Egypt is near West Asia, and at the edge of Africa. [...]
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Who was Hippias, tyrant of Athens?
Who was Hippias? Harmodius and Aristogeiton attacking Hippias and Hipparchus Hippias and Hipparchus When the tyrant Pisistratus died in 528 BC, his two sons, Hippias and Hipparchus, took over ruling Athens [...]
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Hellenistic Greece – Greek history
Hellenistic Greece: Alexander fights Darius at Issus (mosaic from Pompeii) Socrates and Plato After the Peloponnesian War was over, all the cities of Greece were worn out and poor. Many [...]
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Greece in the Early Bronze Age
A beaked jug from Early Bronze Age Greece (Lerna, about 2100 BC) Bronze comes to Greece Bronze is a metal that is a mixture of a little tin and a [...]
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Greek history Bingo – Ancient Greece activity
Black-figure amphora by Exekias showing Achilles and Ajax playing checkers To review and make sure you know the basics of Greek history, try playing this Greek History Bingo game. Copy [...]
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Tyrant Game – Ancient Greece activity
Harmodius and Aristogeiton To understand more about tyranny, play a game with a group of kids (about 25 is perfect) where you decide whether to have a tyrant, and who [...]
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Dark Age Greece – History of Greece
Submycenaean octopus jar from Dark Age Greece Dark Age isolation and poverty After most of the Mycenaean palaces were destroyed around 1200 BC, nobody rebuilt them. The only palace we [...]
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Classical Greek history
Classical Greece: the Pnyx, where the Athenian Assembly met Democracy in Athens In 510 BC a man named Cleisthenes (KLICE-then-eez), who was an aristocrat (a rich, powerful man) in Athens, [...]
