The Battle of Marathon Primary Source Analysis and Writing Prompts
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Students will read and analyze an account of the Battle of Marathon between Ancient Greece and Persia by answering 16 questions and responding to 3 writing prompts or creative tasks. This would be great for a sub and the answers are included where appropriate!
Sample questions include:
--Write an academic term to describe the Plataeans.
--How did Miltiades persuade Callimachus to vote for battle?
--Why might the Persians have been referred to as barbarians? How might the Persians have referred to the Greeks?
--Make a connection between Greek sentiment or mindset and the actions of the last paragraph.
--Does this battle matter today, why or why not?
--Write an academic term to describe the Plataeans.
--How did Miltiades persuade Callimachus to vote for battle?
--Why might the Persians have been referred to as barbarians? How might the Persians have referred to the Greeks?
--Make a connection between Greek sentiment or mindset and the actions of the last paragraph.
--Does this battle matter today, why or why not?
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