Ancient Greeks

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• Ancient Greeks
• Presentation For Y6 Children

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History of the Greeks

• Ancient Greeks
• Greek Gods
• Land of the Greeks
• Greek Warriors
• Modern Day Greece

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Ancient Greeks

• Classical Period
• 500BC 250BC
• This was the birth place of philosophy, democracy
  and early scientific thought.

• Influential Greeks
• Plato - philosophy
• Socrates - philosophy
• Pythagoras - mathematics
• Archimedes - science
• Parmenides - playwright

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Greek Gods

• The Greeks worshipped many Gods.
• Some Gods were planets, others were Gods of War,
  the sea and love.
• They had important and lesser Gods

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Land of the Greeks

• Greece is a Mediterranean country
• It is made up of a mainland and many islands
• The city of Athens is its capital

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Greek Warriors

• The Goddess of War

• Alexander The Great

• A Greek Archer

• Greek Soldiers

• Greek Charioteer