Ancient Greece and Rome on the Map
Locate Greece and Italy on a map and know they are countries around the Mediterranean Sea where two great ancient civilisations — Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome — grew up thousands of years ago, long after the ancient Egyptians but long before our time
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“If you showed your child a map, could they point to where Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were and tell you those places are near the Mediterranean Sea?”
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- Activity. Locate Greece and Italy on a map and know they are countries around the Mediterranean Sea where two great ancient civilisations — Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome — grew up thousands of years ago, long after the ancient Egyptians but long before our time
What to notice. Point to Greece and Italy on a world map or globe • Say that Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were around the Mediterranean Sea • Place Greece and Rome on a simple timeline after Ancient Egypt and before today
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If you showed your child a map, could they point to where Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were and tell you those places are near the Mediterranean Sea?
Locate Greece and Italy on a map and know they are countries around the Mediterranean Sea where two great ancient civilisations — Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome — grew up thousands of years ago, long after the ancient Egyptians but long before our time
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- Point to Greece and Italy on a world map or globe
- Say that Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were around the Mediterranean Sea
- Place Greece and Rome on a simple timeline after Ancient Egypt and before today
“If you showed your child a map, could they point to where Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were and tell you those places are near the Mediterranean Sea?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- History
- Domain
- Ancient Greece & Rome
- Age range
- Ages 5–7