Year 4 Topic Knowledge Organiser Ancient Greeks

Key dates During the term you will:  Identify the ways in which we know about the Ancient Greeks.  Order and place the Ancient Greek era and events as well as other historical  776 BC - The first Olympic Games takes place. eras on a timeline.  757 BC - First Messenian War begins. This is a war  Learn about key aspects of everyday life during the Ancient Greek time between Sparta and Messenia that will last many  Know that life was different depending on class age and gender years.  Understand how life differed in Athens and Sparta  750 BC - Homer begins to write the Iliad and Odyssey.  Identify the names and jobs of the major Greek gods  650 BC - The Greek Tyrants come into power.  Understand how ancient Greek warfare worked  621 BC - A lawyer named Draco introduces strict new  Know about the contribution made by Ancient Greek scholars to the laws in Athens that are punishable by death. modern world.  600 BC - The first Greek coins are introduced.  Know how the ancient Greeks influenced theatre, architecture and sport  570 BC - Pythagoras is born. He will make major acropolis a fortified part of an Ancient Greek city, typically one built on a advances in science, math, and philosophy. hill.  508 BC - Democracy is introduced in Athens by archaeologist a person who studies human history and prehistory through the Cleisthenes. excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other  490 BC - The Greeks fight the Persians in the Greek/ physical remains Persian Wars. artefact an object made by a human being, typically one of cultural or  468 BC - Sophocles begins to write plays for the theatre. Athens the capital and largest city of Greece; named after the goddess  432 BC - The temple to Athena, the Parthenon, is completed in Athens on the Acropolis. Year 4 Topic chronological events in the order they occurred  431 BC - The wars between Sparta and Athens begin. Knowledge Organiser citizen an inhabitant of a particular town or city  342 BC - The great philosopher, scientist, and Ancient Greeks democracy a place ruled by the people living there mathematician, Aristotle, begins to tutor Alexander hoplite a heavily armed foot soldier of Ancient Greece (later to be called Alexander the Great).  336 BC - Alexander the Great becomes king when his Olympic a set of international sports competitions which take place every father, Philip of Macedon is assassinated.

 333 BC - Alexander begins his conquests and defeats Parthenon a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, dedicated to the the Persians. goddess Athena philosopher a way of thinking about the world, the universe, and society  332 BC - Alexander conquers Egypt.  323 BC - The Hellenistic period begins when Alexander politician a member of a government or law-making organization the Great dies. The Ancient Greek civilization begins its slave a person who is legally owned by someone else and has to work for decline and the Ancient Romans start to gain power.  146 BC - Rome conquers Greece making it part of the Sparta an Ancient Greek city-state and rival of Athens Roman Empire. Zeus the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion