The Persians & Greeks VBQ

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Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks (Athens & Sparta)

ONLY WATCH the part from 8:00-12:00!!!

What did you learn about either the Athenians or Spartans that you didn't know before?

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The Persians & Greeks Crash Course

Transcript: https://nerdfighteria.info/v/Q-mkVSasZIM/

What did you learn about Zoroastrianism that you didn't already know? (Hint: One of their beliefs!) *

[4:00-5:00] In the short clip played by John and John, the comedic playwright Aristophanes is satirizing (making a joke but also making a critical point about) what institution? *

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Patriarchy

Slavery

Democracy

Marriage

[5:00-600] Most of the famous and fancy stuff you learn about Ancient Greek culture is really focusing just on which Polis? *

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Athens

Sparta

Corinth

Thebes

[5:00-600] True of False? Before the Persian Wars, all Greeks saw themselves as one united people. *

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True

False

[5:30-6:30] What started the Greco-Persian Wars? *

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The 300 Spartans temporarily held off the Persian army that was marching into Greece.

The Ionian Greeks in Anatolia rebelled against the Persians, and the Athenians supported the rebellion.

The Athenians defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.

Pericles gave a speech praising Athens and the Persians got jealous and decided to conquer it.

[6:00-6:30] Why did the Greco-Persian Wars help the Greeks to feel a greater sense of unity as Greeks? *

[6:30-7:00] Pericles was the leader of Athens during its Golden Age. The Funeral Oration of Pericles, his famous speech that actually inspired and is often compared to the Gettysburg Address (quoted by John), was a praise of what form of government? *

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Monarchy

Oligarchy

Aristocracy

Democracy

[7:00-8:00] After the Greco-Persian Wars, where the Greeks worked together to fight the Persians, the Athenians and Spartans, along with their allies, actually wound up going to war with each other. This war was called the *

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Persian Wars

Peloponnesian War

Punic Wars

Battle of the Pelennor Fields

[7:30-8:30] The Athenians went to the island of Melos and demanded that the Melians submit to Athenian rule. When the Melians said they didn't want to be ruled by Athens, how did the Athenians respond? *

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Athens was a democracy, so they held a vote to decide

They said ok and went home and didn't bother them anymore

They conquered them, killed the men, and enslaved the women and children

They sent them strings of random emojis until they slowly went insane and gave up

[9:00-11:30] In your opinion, would the world be better off if the Persians, rather than the Greeks, won the Greco-Persian Wars? Understand that, if the Persians won and took over Greece, Persian culture, rather than Greek culture, might have formed the basis of European civilization! I guess it mostly depends on which you think had the overall better civilization. Think about it. But also write it here. And give supporting reasons. (This might be a debate questions quite soon...)

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