Evidence for Greek and Roman Life
Understand that historians and archaeologists piece together ancient Greek and Roman life from evidence — pottery paintings, coins, inscriptions, ruins like Pompeii, and written texts by authors such as Homer and Pliny — and that the same evidence can be interpreted in different ways by different historians
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Evidence for Greek and Roman life comes from material remains and written or visual sources. Each source reveals some things and leaves limitations.
Examine two sources, record observations, infer one aspect of daily life, and state a limitation for each inference.
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Check understanding
- Name at least three types of evidence historians use to learn about ancient Greece and Rome
- Explain why Pompeii is especially valuable as a source of evidence about Roman life
- Give an example of how the same piece of evidence could be interpreted in more than one way
“If your child saw an ancient Greek pot or a Roman coin in a museum, could they explain what historians can learn from objects like these and why different experts might interpret them differently?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Meta
- Subject
- History
- Domain
- Ancient Greece & Rome
- Age range
- Ages 9–11