Assignment Details

Cover work: REVISION

2018-19

Classics Year 8

Date

May 23, 2019

Additional Info
Everyone in the class should be doing revision. This is a very good time to make sure you have everything you require in your exercise books. Check with the questions below, and begin writing revision paragraphs or summary bullet points on these questions:

  1. What does archaeology tell us about Greek Bronze Age society?
  2. Describe the culture of the Mycenaean Greeks.
  3. What is the Greek Classical Age and when approximately did it start? Why is this described as the Greek 'Golden Age'?
  4. What was a Polis and how was it different to a modern city? What were the main buildings / areas in a Polis?
  5. How were Poleis governed?
  6. What were the main differences between Athens, Sparta, Corinth and Thebes?
  7. Why did the Persian Wars take place, and when?
  8. How did the Greeks defeat the Persians in both the first and second Persian Wars?
  9. What was the Hoplite and the Phalanx?
  10. What were the main consequences of the Persian Wars?