ANCIENT GREECE!
By Chloe Bird
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is called 'the birthplace of Western civilisation'.The
two most important city states of Ancient Greece were Athens and
Sparta. There was not a country called ‘Ancient Greece’. Instead
they’re small ‘city-states’. About 3000 BC, there lived on the
island of Crete a people now called Minoans. Ancient Greece had a
warm, dry climate, as Greece does today. People lived by farming,
fishing, and trade. Many Greeks were poor. Life was hard because
farmland, water and timber for building were all scarce. That's why
many Greeks sailed off to find new lands to settle.
Ancient Greek School & Jobs
Athenian girls did not go to school they stayed at home
cooking, sewing and learning to play musical
instruments. Boys went to school. Some people were
soldiers. Others were scholars, scientists and artists.
Boys in Sparta did not go to school from the age of
seven went to train for war.
Athens Facts
 We know more about Athens because it produced many writers and
artists, whose work has survived to this day
 Of the 250,000 to 300,000 people in Athens, between a quarter and a
third of them were slaves
 The biggest factory in Athens had 120 slave-workers it made shields
for the army
Spartan Facts
 A Spartan wife looked after the family farm while her husband was
away training or fighting
 Sickly babies were left to die in very horrible ways
 Girls did a lot of physical exercise every day
 If you were a man with no wife you would have to run around
naked once a year
 If you weren’t a slave you were a solider
Life in Ancient Greece
Many Greeks were poor. Life was hard because farmland, water and
timber for building were all scarce. That's why many Greeks sailed
off to find new lands to settle. In Greece there were two classes of
people free people and slaves. Most Greeks lived in villages or small
cities.
The Trojan War
The Trojans lived in the city of Troy, in what is now Turkey. The
story of their war with the Greeks is told in the Iliad, a long poem
dating from the 700s BC, and said to be by a storyteller named
Homer. A Trojan princess called Cassandra also her people not to
trust the wooden horse. But no-one believed her. No one ever
believed her. The Wooden Horse was the trick the Greeks used to
capture Troy. First they pretended to sail away, but left behind a
giant wooden horse. Inside the horse, Greek soldiers were hiding.
Famous Greeks
Students came to Athens to study at two famous schools or
"colleges" in Athens: Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum.
The most famous Greek doctor Hippocrates of Kos. The most
famous Greek hero Heracles who could kill a lion with bare
hands. The Spartans were famous for their strict military and
powerful army.
3000 BC
1200 BC
The Minoan
Civilization
The
The 1st
Greeks
Olympic
fight Troy Games
776 BC
443 BC
431 BC
Pericles
leads
Athens in its
Golden Age
The
Peloponnesian
War
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