History- Year 5/6- Ancient Greece-City States and the way they were Governed

The purpose of this lesson is: to consider a map of ancient Greece and to investigate city states and the way they were governed.

Children should learn:
• about the geography of ancient Greece;
• that ancient Greece consisted of city states;
• that different city states were governed in different
ways.
Class objective:
• to discover how ancient Greece was organized.

Children should be able to:
• recognize that ancient Greece was organized into
city states;
• know that Athens and Sparta were city states;
• understand that there are different models of
government.

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