History At Our House: Ancient History

Oct 16 2012 19 ep. 7 mins 1.2k

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The History At Our House blog, providing samples of Mr Powell's unique approach to teaching history.

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Nobody expects the Macedonian Expedition

Oct 16 2012 5 mins

Here's episode 25 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head around our classroom doors here at History At Our House! Athens and the rest of Greece has risen, high on its defeat of Persia. And now it has fallen into internal wars and bickering, disunited and collapsing in on itself. Much of this can be blamed on Athen's avarice, wanting to rule the other city-states. Thebes t

One Greek practice in the many

Oct 09 2012 6 mins

Here's episode 24 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! In this class, the High School class is finished with the Greco-Persian wars, and they're now looking at just what the Athenians got up to, now this victorious, relatively prosperous power in the Mediterranean. Like the Lower Elementary class, they've been look

What did the Athenians ever do for us?

Sep 24 2012 9 mins

Here's episode 23 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! In this class, the Lower Elementary students have started the Golden Age of Athens, a period which came in the peace following the Greek triumph over the invading Persian forces. The Lower Elementary class are introduced to one of the main industries of this ti

"Doesn't play well with others" - Sparta spurns Athens

Sep 18 2012 10 mins

Here's episode 22 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! Athens and Sparta always had very opposed ideologies and, even though they were not at war with each other for much of their existence, the peace between them was very uneasy. Sometimes it's best to just avoid each other... but when one group of people goes out

The Greco-Persian wars: a rag-tag group of rebels vs the Empire

Aug 27 2012 7 mins

Here's episode 21 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! The period of the Greco-Persian wars is one of those triumphant moments in history, where something incredibly good actually happens. History tends to have a lot of muddling forward, and a lot of people making bad decisions. The Greco-Persian wars themselves are

The destructive tensions in a society of slaveholders

Aug 21 2012 6 mins

Here's episode 20 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! As anyone from the United States well knows, slavery can cause massive tensions and rifts in any state. Particularly when that state is establishing itself as a "free" state, and trying to figure out what that word means. Greece had its own trouble with this (so

Athens: A terrible place to build a monarchy

Aug 15 2012 7 mins

Here's episode 19 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! One of the things we're hot on here is the significance of events. It's not enough to know that such-and-such a people believed this or that such-and-such an event happened. We want to make sure students understand why it all matters. The Athenians had what is i

The Ancient and Spartan ideology of Communism

Aug 06 2012 7 mins

Here's episode 18 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! This week we're with the High School class, where students grapple a lot more with the ideas being bandied about in each period. They work to understand what these ideas are and how they influenced events. In this particular class the students studied why the Sp

The Peculiarly Greek Olympics

Jul 31 2012 7 mins

Here's episode 17 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! Well, the Olympics are in full swing now, so why don't we learn a little bit about their origins? This clip comes from a class late last year, but it's especially relevant now. Nowadays, the Olympics is a pretty standard event. It's a tribute to great mastery,

The Limits of the Persian Empire

Jul 23 2012 6 mins

Here's episode 16 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round one of our classroom doors, here at History At Our House! And so we reach the edges of the Persian Empire, its borders and its capabilities. As the class looked at last time, there's a reason we're so interested in Mesopotamia: it's because of the Persians! And in particular, we care about why they came into c