Ancient Greece | Learn the History and Facts about Ancient Greece for Kids — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:05ancient greece for kids
3. 0:08have you ever wondered who started the
4. 0:10olympics or invented geometry
5. 0:13well you're in luck because today
6. 0:16we're going to take a trip back in time
7. 0:19and learn all about the people who
8. 0:21invented these things in a place called
9. 0:24ancient greece
10. 0:26around about 2
11. 0:28500 years ago a civilization located in
12. 0:31greece began
13. 0:33it existed for the next 700 years until
14. 0:37it was conquered by the roman empire
15. 0:40like the mayans egyptians
16. 0:43persians
17. 0:44incas and aztecs the ancient greeks were
18. 0:48very smart and created lots of things
19. 0:51that we still use today
20. 0:54for example buildings like the united
21. 0:57states capital and the supreme court
22. 0:59building in washington dc are modeled
23. 1:02after ancient greek architectural style
24. 1:05or the olympic games which were first
25. 1:08held in the year
26. 1:10776 bc
27. 1:13so where was ancient greece located
28. 1:15exactly and what was life like there
29. 1:19ancient greece was found in what is now
30. 1:22called south eastern europe along the
31. 1:24coast of the mediterranean
32. 1:26sea on the west and the aegean sea on
33. 1:29the east
34. 1:31right across from modern day turkey
35. 1:34about eighty percent of the land was
36. 1:36full of mountains which provided the
37. 1:39people with natural barriers of
38. 1:41protection from potential enemies
39. 1:44unlike modern kingdoms or countries
40. 1:46today ancient greece was not one large
41. 1:49empire
42. 1:50instead it was made up of various
43. 1:53independent city-states including athens
44. 1:58sparta
45. 1:59and thebes
46. 2:01even though these city-states were
47. 2:03separate from each other
48. 2:05and often fought or competed against
49. 2:08each other
50. 2:09they all spoke the same language and had
51. 2:12similar cultures and customs
52. 2:15much like other great civilizations
53. 2:18ancient greece was divided up into time
54. 2:20periods each one with its own unique
55. 2:23events and contributions
56. 2:26first is the archaic period which
57. 2:29happened between 800 and 480 bc
58. 2:33the first olympics was held during this
59. 2:36time and the philosopher and writer
60. 2:39homer wrote two of the most famous poems
61. 2:42in the world's history
62. 2:45iliad
63. 2:46and
64. 2:47odyssey
65. 2:48and a famous mathematician and scientist
66. 2:51named pythagoras was born
67. 2:54we still use his pythagorean theorem in
68. 2:58geometry today
69. 3:00next is the classical period which
70. 3:03lasted from 480 bc to
71. 3:06323 bc
72. 3:08the famous philosophers socrates and
73. 3:12aristotle lived during this time
74. 3:15alexander the great ancient greece's
75. 3:18most famous leader was also born and
76. 3:21eventually conquered many lands
77. 3:23surrounding the greek empire after he
78. 3:26became king
79. 3:28and the parthenon
80. 3:30which is a temple in honor of the
81. 3:32goddess athena
82. 3:33was built in the city-state of athens
83. 3:37the parthenon still stands today and is
84. 3:40the oldest ancient greek building to
85. 3:42survive in modern times
86. 3:45last is the hellenistic period which
87. 3:48spanned from 323 bc to 146 bc
88. 3:54this era marked the death of alexander
89. 3:57the great and the decline of the ancient
90. 4:00greek civilization
91. 4:02after alexander the great died the
92. 4:04ancient romans began to conquer greek
93. 4:07lands
94. 4:08eventually making all of ancient greece
95. 4:11a part of the roman empire
96. 4:14now let's explore a little bit about
97. 4:16what daily life was like
98. 4:19the rooms of greek homes were built
99. 4:22around an open space called a courtyard
100. 4:25the courtyard was the center of activity
101. 4:28for most ancient greeks and included a
102. 4:30well for water and an altar for
103. 4:33religious worship
104. 4:35children were treated differently based
105. 4:37on their gender
106. 4:38depending on the city-state boys were
107. 4:41formally educated starting at age seven
108. 4:44either at school or at home
109. 4:47girls on the other hand learned
110. 4:49homemaking skills like cooking or sewing
111. 4:52though some were also taught to read and
112. 4:54write girls in the city-state of sparta
113. 4:58received the most education and freedoms
114. 5:01of all the city-states in ancient greece
115. 5:05most greek men were farmers so they ate
116. 5:08what they grew olives were a very
117. 5:11important part of the people's diets
118. 5:14the majority of the greek diet consisted
119. 5:17of
120. 5:17cheeses
121. 5:19fruits
122. 5:20vegetables and fish
123. 5:23other occupations for men included
124. 5:26fishermen
125. 5:28soldiers
126. 5:29teachers
127. 5:31government workers
128. 5:32or craftsmen
129. 5:34women typically stayed home as
130. 5:37homemakers caring for children
131. 5:40cooking
132. 5:40sewing and doing other work inside the
133. 5:43home
134. 5:45unfortunately most citizens of ancient
135. 5:48greece enslaved other people
136. 5:50usually from lands that the empire had
137. 5:53conquered
138. 5:54even the poorest of greek families
139. 5:57typically relied on the labor of at
140. 5:59least one enslaved person
141. 6:02in fact there were about as many
142. 6:05enslaved people in greece as there were
143. 6:08free people
144. 6:10so even though the ancient greeks were
145. 6:13advanced in many ways
146. 6:15their practice of enslavement was not
147. 6:18one of them
148. 6:20now that you know all about ancient
149. 6:22greece let's test your knowledge with a
150. 6:24few review questions
151. 6:28how many different time periods was
152. 6:30ancient greece divided into
153. 6:33can you name at least one of them
154. 6:37three
155. 6:38archaic
156. 6:40classical
157. 6:42hellenistic
158. 6:44true or false in ancient greece only
159. 6:47boys received a formal education
160. 6:52true
161. 6:54fill in the blank
162. 6:56athens sparta and thebes were three of
163. 6:59the independent blank states
164. 7:02found in ancient greece
165. 7:06city
166. 7:08fantastic work everybody
167. 7:11even though ancient greece was
168. 7:13eventually conquered most of western
169. 7:16culture today was impacted by the
170. 7:18ancient greeks in many areas
171. 7:21including
172. 7:22government
173. 7:24philosophy
174. 7:26science
175. 7:27art
176. 7:29literature
177. 7:30math
178. 7:32and sports
179. 7:34so when you are old enough to vote in an
180. 7:36election
181. 7:38or turn on your tv to watch the olympics
182. 7:41or solve a math problem using
183. 7:43pythagorean theorem
184. 7:45you can thank the ancient greeks
185. 7:49hope you had fun learning with us
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189. 7:59homeschoolers
190. 8:04[Music]