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Persia Achaemenid Kings Graphic Organisers (Dual Coded) Ancient History GCSE
These painstakingly created Graphic Organisers are ideal for Ancient History 9-1 GCSE. Quality resources for the GCSE seem scarce and this is me trying to rectify that a bit. These provide all the required information in an easily accessible and memorable way for the Period study of Persia - just over a quarter of the whole GCSE.
My students really appreciate these. The organisers give enough ‘knowledge’ or ‘information’ for students to get a good grade at GCSE - a 4/5/6 depending on how much information they can retain.
We print these out A5 size and stick them in the middle of our books and as I am teaching students will annotate these sheets according to how much extra information they need to get above a 4/5/6.
The visuals are a huge help and icons and schemas are repeated as and when appropriate across the organisers which makes pupils feel secure and build a mental image of all the content - something I had found challenging to help them create before using these. The GOs really help tell the ‘story’ of the Achaemenid (Persian) Kings: Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius and Xerxes.
Topics included:
Cyrus’ birth and early life
Cyrus’ conquest of Astyages and the Medes / Media
Cyrus’ conquest of Croesus and the Lydians / Lydia
Cyrus’ conquest of Nabonidus and the Babylonians / Babylon
The importance of the Nabonidus Chronicle, Cyrus Cylinder and Herodotus as sources
The foundation of Cyrus’ city at Pasargadae
Cyrus’ death at the hands of Queen Tomyris and the Massegatae
Early Cambyses and Succession
Background to Cambyses’ invasion of Egypt
Cambyses conquest of Egypt
Cambyses positives as ruler of Egypt
Cambyses’ negatives and 'madness as ruler of Egypt
Cambyses’ military failures after conquering Egypt (Carthage, Ammonia, Ethiopia)
Smerdis’ the usurper and death of Cambyses
Accession of Darius
Behistun (Bisitun) Inscription
Darius’ reorganisation of the Persian Empire
The foundation of Darius’ city at Persepolis
Darius’ initial expansion attempts from 517 BCE
The backstory and causes of the Ionian Revolt
The events of the Ionian Revolt 499 BCE
The aftermath and consequences of the Ionian Revolt
Darius’ final invasion of Greece and death
Accession of Xerxes to the Persian throne
Xerxes’ preparations for his invasion of Greece
Xerxes’ invasion of Greece
The Battle of Thermopylae
The sack of Athens
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Eurymedon
End of Persian forays westward