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Classical Connections: Greek and Roman Historians 500 BC-400 AD

Classical Connections: Greek and Roman Historians 500 BC-400 AD. Growth of cultural exchange 1200 BC-500 AD. This PowerPoint is the overarching inquiry question and background information presented during the first lesson. Big History.

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Classical Connections: Greek and Roman Historians 500 BC-400 AD

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  1. Classical Connections:Greek and Roman Historians 500 BC-400 AD Growth of cultural exchange 1200 BC-500 AD

  2. This PowerPoint is the overarching inquiry question and background information presented during the first lesson

  3. Big History • The exchange of ideas across cultural and language groups became a dominant feature of world history

  4. Our Inquiry Question • Why did historians write history in the Classical World? • Why did their audience love history?

  5. Archaic Greece • Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the first Classical literature shared between Greeks and Romans • 1000 BC

  6. Rome Founded • Romulus and Remus found Rome on the banks of the Tiber • History or myth? • 753 BC

  7. Persian Wars • Persian Empire attacks Greece and fails • 490-479 BC

  8. Herodotus • Historian of the Persian Wars • Istoriahistoria Meaning inquiries • Lived c 484-425 BC

  9. Greece’s ‘World War’ 431 BC – 404 BC The Peloponnesian War

  10. Thucydides • A war ‘worth noting’ • Wrote for posterity • A general & eyewitness at the Pelponnesian War • 460-395 BC

  11. Hannibal crosses the Alps • Rome and Carthage fight for Mediterranean supremacy • 218 BC

  12. Rome wins Mediterranean • Rome destroys Carthage and conquers the Greeks • 202-146 BC

  13. Polybius • Records the rise of Rome and the conquest of the Mediterranean • Wrote to educate and train leaders • Lived 203-120 BC

  14. Catiline’s Conspiracy • The Roman republic suffers a century of crisis and civil war • Catiline’s conspiracy 64-63 BC

  15. Julius Caesar Assassinated • General, politician, orator, historian and dictator • Murdered 44 BC

  16. C. Sallustius Crispus • Sallust • Roman senator and historian • Ally of Caesar • Wrote in retirement • History of Catiline • Lived 86-34 BC

  17. Augustus Emperor • Octavian ends 100 years of Civil War and becomes Imperator (great General) and Princeps (first man) • 27 BC

  18. Titus Livius (Livy) • Historian of the Roman Republic from the foundation to the present time • Wrote to record the greatness of Rome • Lived 59 BC-17 AD

  19. Tiberius’ Terror • Judicial murder of dozens of senators and leading Roman families • 25-37 AD

  20. Vesuvius Erupts • Pompeii and Herculaneum buried under volcanic ash and pumice • 79 AD

  21. Tacitus • Consul, Senator and historian of the Roman Empire • Wrote to record merit and expose evil • Lived 56-117 AD

  22. Constantinople founded • Constantine founds ‘Second Rome’ and never visits Rome • Establishes Christianity • 330 AD

  23. Julian the Apostate • Julian renounces Christianity in favour of the traditional Gods • 360-363 AD

  24. Ammianus • Eye-witness and historian of the Later Roman Empire • 325/330–after 391

  25. The Sack of Rome • Alaric, King of the Visigoths conquers the city of Rome and ends its poer in the western Empire • 410 AD

  26. Acknowledgement World History for Us All slide templateContent wholly written by Mark Stevens

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