🏛️ Ancient Greece and Rome on the Map

What you’ll learn

1. A Very Long Time AgoUnderstand that Greece and Rome were ancient worlds that lived thousands of years ago, with Greece a little earlier than Rome.Greece and Rome are called ancient because they lived thousands of years ago. Greece's famous cities came first (from about 800 BCE), and Rome grew up soon after and lasted a very long time.
2. The Big Blue Sea in the MiddleLocate Greece and Italy near the Mediterranean Sea in Europe and understand the sea as a link between them.Both Greece and Italy sit beside the Mediterranean Sea in Europe. The sea acted like a giant road, letting people sail between the two worlds to trade, visit, and share ideas.
3. Find GreeceRecognize Greece as a land of hills and islands whose people built columned temples like the Parthenon.Greece is a land of rocky hills and many islands, so the Greeks became skilled sailors. They built white stone temples with tall columns, the most famous being the Parthenon, which still stands today.
4. Meet the GreeksIdentify famous contributions of the ancient Greeks, including the Olympics, myths, columns, theater, and painted pottery.The Greeks loved to think, play, and tell stories. They began the Olympic Games, told myths about gods and heroes, built columned temples, staged the first plays, and painted scenes on clay pots that survive today.
5. Find Rome in ItalyLocate Rome in boot-shaped Italy and recognize the Romans as great builders of arenas and roads.Rome grew up in Italy, a peninsula shaped like a boot. The Romans were great builders, raising huge arenas like the Colosseum and strong stone roads so good that 'all roads lead to Rome.'
6. Rome Learned from GreeceUnderstand that Rome borrowed Greek columns, art, and gods (with new names), showing how ideas traveled across the sea.Because the Mediterranean joined the two worlds, Rome learned from Greece. The Romans adopted Greek columns and art and kept the Greek gods under Roman names, such as Zeus becoming Jupiter and Poseidon becoming Neptune.

Questions this course answers

Grounded in trusted sources

• Encyclopaedia Britannica — Ancient Greece flourished from about 800 BCE until the Roman conquest in 146 BCE; the city-states grew around the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas
• Encyclopaedia Britannica — Rome, traditionally founded 753 BCE; the Western Roman Empire ended in 476 CE; Italy is a peninsula in the central Mediterranean
• The British Museum — the ancient Olympic Games began at Olympia in Greece; Greek temples such as the Parthenon used columns
• Encyclopaedia Britannica / The British Museum — Romans adopted Greek gods under new names (Zeus/Jupiter, Poseidon/Neptune, Ares/Mars, Aphrodite/Venus, Hera/Juno) and borrowed Greek art and architecture

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