Geography: Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece was located in what is now southern Europe and is made up of the mainland peninsula and hundreds of small islands. These islands are in the Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean Seas.
Explore maps of Ancient Greece here.
Find out more on the British Museum website.
Task:
Could you copy a map of Ancient Greece and label it with its surrounding countries?
Challenge:
Find out about the physical features of Ancient Greece and understand how they influenced the civilisation that developed there.
You may remember from the work we did on Scandinavia that physical features are natural (not man-made) geographical features.
Let us know what you learn/ discover in the comment section below!
If you would like to share your map with us, please upload it via the Homework Uploader here.
We look forward to reading your responses,
Mrs Avdiu & Ms Robertson
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Hello Mrs Avdiu and Ms Robertson, I hope that you are all doing well. I am at the hub school at the moment but I will do the task a soon as I get home. I hope that you all enjoy your day!
No problem, Elsa!
Hello Elsa!
How are the bulbs doing that we planted – have any shoots appeared yet?
I have done the geography map of Greece with Iggy using Skype like we did for Maths and English. We drew a map of Ancient Greece and its surroundings and we labelled each important Greek city. We have found out that Greece is a very mountainous region and the climate is Csa which is hot Mediterranean climate.
Wow, that sounds awesome. You’re welcome to send in a photo via the Homework Uploader I mentioned above.
Hello everyone this is the physical feature I chose:
Islands and Mountains
Crete and Evia are its two largest islands and major islands group including the Argo-Saronic, Cyclades, Dodecanese, Lonian, Northeast Aegean and Sporades. With the vast percentage of its land comprised of hills and rugged mountains, Greece is one of the most mountainous countries in Europe. Some of the ancient mountains were named after Greek Gods for example mount Paranassus belonged to Apollo. The most famous mountains in Greece were Olympus, Parnassus, Pelion and the last Taygetos. Greece has over 5000 islands. Fun fact about Greece they used to believe Greece’s blue doors kept away evil spirits.
Excellent work! Thank you for sharing what you found. Did you try drawing the map?
Hello everyone , Miss Avdiu , Miss Robertson ,
I have done the map and I am going to Uploaded it in order to show it to everyone !! 🙂 I have noticed that Greece is composed by many small islands (1400), which is incredible!
Have a good afternoon
Can’t wait to see it!
Hello Everyone !!!!
At the moment I am doing the Ancient Greek project. There are so many amazing facts that all of you have put down!!!! Well Done !!! ???????
I hope you all have a lovely week and I hope you are all safe and well !!!
Best Wishes
~Elena ?
Thank you Elena for such lovely words to your classmates. I’m looking forward to seeing what you discover!
I have drawn a map of Ancient Greece using a book as reference, I have learnt where all of major cities were located and the islands that sorround the mainland. I enjoyed drawing all the land shapes and identifying the different seas. The green land is mainly close to the sea whereas in the center in very mountaneous.
I uploaded my picture for you to see my map!
Thank you Marco! Sounds like you have been very busy researching for this map – it looks great!
Thank you for sharing your map Sara, well done!
A wonderful map Sebastiao! Well done for labelling all the key places.
Dear Miss Carruthers, dear Miss Avdiu,
I am wondering if you received the map I upload two days ago because I do not see it on the blog!
Thanks for sending it in! It is a wonderful map with lots of details. Well done!
I am really glad that our topic is about the Greeks. I have read about them in the link that you gave us – they seem very interesting ?. I can’t wait to study even more about them.?
I wanted to share a really cool fact ? about my name and where it comes from. Some people think that it comes from Serbia ??, Slovenia ?? or even Croatia ??. That is actually incorrect, my name comes from the Greeks. Nike is the Greek version of my name. Nike the goddess of winning, and can be described as wearing:
– Golden sandals
– Great big wings
– Golden wreath
Did you know that in Slovenia, ‘victory’ is pronounced as ‘Victoria’. This is the same as in Serbia.
The Romans actually had the same gods and goddesses as the Greeks but they had different names for them…
For an example:
Zeus = Jupiter
Hades = Pluto
Hermes = Mercury
Poseidon = Neptune
Hera = Juno
Nike = Victoria
Yes, it is fascinating that Nike and Victoria both mean ‘victory’.
I really hope that you have learnt something new with my facts.
~ Nika ?
Wow Nika – I love that you know so much history about your name. What a fascinating name it is! I wonder if your mum chose your name because of its meaning…?
Yes, Miss Carruthers – she actually did! My mum studied Ancient Greek language and she fell in love ? with the name Nike.
I will ask her to tell me some other cool facts about other Greek names and their meaning because that really fascinates me…
Have a nice day!
~ Nika ?
Wow, that’s amazing!