GOVERNMENT: Using Language of the Historian
Essential Questions
Essential QuestionsIdentify and explain the political forms adopted by Greek urban societies.
What political forms were adopted by Greek urban societies (city-states)?
Investigate how these forms shape a person’s life and his/her social status.
How did these political forms shape the life of a person living in Greece?
Investigate why Athens' political form changed.
What circumstances explain Athen’s changes in political form?
Athenians: Investigate Pericles and his Funeral Oration.
Who is Pericles and what is his Funeral Oration?
Why is the Funeral Oration so important in history?
What political forms were adopted by Greek urban societies (city-states)?
Investigate how these forms shape a person’s life and his/her social status.
How did these political forms shape the life of a person living in Greece?
Investigate why Athens' political form changed.
What circumstances explain Athen’s changes in political form?
Athenians: Investigate Pericles and his Funeral Oration.
Who is Pericles and what is his Funeral Oration?
Why is the Funeral Oration so important in history?
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Curated List of Resources: Politics
Extension or Alternative: Was Athenian Democracy truly democratic?
Extension: A Little Independent Study
Standards
6.4.2. Trace the transition from tyranny and oligarchy to early democratic forms of government and back to dictatorship in ancient Greece, including the significance of the invention of the idea of citizenship (e.g., from Pericles' Funeral Oration).
6.4.3. State the key differences between Athenian, or direct, democracy and representative democracy.
6.4.2. Trace the transition from tyranny and oligarchy to early democratic forms of government and back to dictatorship in ancient Greece, including the significance of the invention of the idea of citizenship (e.g., from Pericles' Funeral Oration).
6.4.3. State the key differences between Athenian, or direct, democracy and representative democracy.