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8. Guidelines for the research should be given – eg amount of work/illustrations

expected, the day for it to be handed in, how Internet information is used and
presented, individual or group work, format for presentation, neatness, etc.

Explain that the children can begin their research as soon as possible, working
at home or in spare moments but inform them that the lessons 5, 6 8 will be

devoted to it.

Learning for Life (Fulfilment)

1. The children will have an overview of modern and Ancient Greece.

2. They will be able to locate the important places, seas, etc.

3. Hopefully, the children will have understood the chronological order of the

historical periods.

4. They will have chosen their topic for study over the coming weeks.

Greek Early Bronze Age

Beaked jug from Lerna
Bronze is a metal that is a mixture of a little tin and a lot of copper.

It was invented in West Asia, where copper was smelted as early as
6000 BC, and during the 3000's BC experiments showed that adding tin to the
copper made it harder: that is bronze. Bronze came to Greece slowly around 3000

BC and did not make much difference right away. Those same Dimini people from the
Neolithic continued living in Greece, but they slowly started to use a little bronze.
Bronze knives and swords were much easier to make and sharper than stone, bone or
wood ones. At the same time, they started to use lead, silver, and gold as well.

But bronze was very expensive, too. Copper wasn't so hard to get, but traders had to
bring tin on donkeys from far away in central Europe (modern Austria). So only the
richer or stronger people could afford bronze tools or weapons. Soon a real class

system started to develop, where the richer people nearly always married each other
and not the poorer people, and it was always these richer people who were in charge.

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