Review of Lessons 4 & 5

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  1. today in Social studies, we will be reviewing lessons four
  2. and five of topics six.
  3. These lessons are about society in Athens and Sparta, Economy
  4. and Warfare in Athens and Sparta.
  5. So, to begin, I'm just going to do a brief
  6. summary of the main concepts that we talked about.
  7. In less than four we discussed education and life in
  8. society in Athens versus that of Sparta.
  9. We discussed the need for trade and expansion as well
  10. as the root cause for that need, which was overpopulation
  11. in ancient Greece.
  12. And then in less than five we discussed a little
  13. bit more about the rivalry between these two famous city
  14. states as well as the Peloponnesian war.
  15. So let's take a look at the vocab terms for
  16. today. In the lesson, we will be enjoying a round
  17. of jeopardy to sort of summarize all of these concepts.
  18. So, watching this video before the lesson will definitely help
  19. you with that.
  20. Here, I have the list of words.
  21. These can be found on today's Word wall.
  22. It will take you to the equivalent link we have
  23. economy barter, which is the system of exchanging goods before
  24. currency was invented in ancient Greece of course, currency expansion
  25. trade routes, the Peloponnesian war, ally, peninsula, Democracy, assembly council
  26. and overpopulation.
  27. So you can take a look at these words and
  28. enjoy some of the activities on quiz lit.
  29. There is a matching activity.
  30. Um, and a few other test uh, I think self
  31. assessment tests that you can do to just make sure
  32. that these vocab terms are crystal clear in your mind.
  33. All right, let's look a little bit deeper into lesson
  34. fork. We began by discussing education.
  35. We talked about how in Athens they had more of
  36. a well rounded education.
  37. They learned about math, literature, music and art.
  38. However, only boys were allowed to have an education because
  39. they believe that the reason for education was to build
  40. strong intelligent citizens to vote and women were not able
  41. to vote to begin with.
  42. So they decided that they wouldn't even need an education.
  43. Whereas in Sparta their education was focused around physical strength.
  44. They went to military training at the age of seven
  45. boys were the only ones who are allowed in the
  46. military, but women did have a little bit more independence
  47. in other aspects of education.
  48. We talked about how they needed to deal with overpopulation.
  49. They did not have enough resources, They have scarce resources
  50. and that's why they needed to come up with different
  51. strategies. One of the strategy strategies is conquest and this
  52. is something that Sparta decided to do as the city
  53. state is just go and conquer neighboring lands and make
  54. those people slaves to them.
  55. The second method is migration, just peacefully moving to another
  56. area. And the third was through trade.
  57. We also discussed how trade allowed them to expand.
  58. It allowed them to grow.
  59. And we also discussed um the invention of coins, which
  60. they learned from the civilization of Lydia.
  61. They had coins and like in Athens for example, they
  62. had a little owl on their coins and that owl
  63. represented the goddess of Athena and barter, as I mentioned,
  64. is the system of exchanging goods for other goods.
  65. Okay, less than five.
  66. It was mainly about the Peloponnesian war.
  67. So to summarize this, I'll just go through some of
  68. the main questions.
  69. # one.
  70. Why did the Peloponnesian war last so long?
  71. Well, it lasted so long because of Athens, a strong
  72. navy and Sparta's strong army.
  73. Neither side could really defeat the other in the beginning.
  74. That's why I took a very long time.
  75. Next. What action by Athens laid the groundwork for its
  76. eventual defeat.
  77. As you know, Athens did lose the war after 25
  78. years. Um, and the answer to that is, Athens invaded
  79. Sicily and lost a large part of its Navy fleet.
  80. Next, what other factors led to Athens defeat?
  81. Persia ended up helping Sparta rebuild its navy and that
  82. made Sparta stronger than Athens at sea last, but not
  83. least what finally led to the downfall of Greece.
  84. The greek city states grew weaker because they kept fighting
  85. one another and this enabled Macedonia to conquer Greece entirely.
  86. Okay, moving on to reviewing geography skills.
  87. Here is a map that we had in lesson fork.
  88. This shows you as you can see in the map
  89. key, the different trade routes that were used and shaded
  90. in orange are areas that were settled by ancient Greeks.
  91. So you can really tell how the issue of overpopulation
  92. actually allowed them to grow because of the three methods
  93. that they decided to use on today's.
  94. You see page.
  95. I have some self assessments that you can do to
  96. practice and some tutorials as well.
  97. So please prepare for the lesson so that our round
  98. of jeopardy can be enjoyable and just a simple way
  99. for you to ensure your understanding of less than four
  100. and five social studies concepts.