#Examples of tyranny full#
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As a teacher it is important that you have a really good working knowledge of these aspects. The items below are key areas which students may need explaining in more depth. It should then help you to build your own scheme of work, confident that you’ve covered all the required content in sufficient depth. What this guide is intended to do is to show you what the teaching outline might look like in practice. Teachers may use this guide as an example of one possible way of approaching the teaching of the ‘From Tyranny to Democracy’ depth study and NOT a prescriptive plan for how your teaching should be structured.

#Examples of tyranny series#

This is intentional to enable you to choose a series of activities that compliment your own teaching. The planning guide does not contain activities. The planning guide is structured around the narratives / content and contains possible points that might be considered or discussed in class. This guide will provide an overview of how this content might be taught in that timeframe. This depth study is designed to take approximately 27–32 hours of teaching time to complete. They will learn to assess the reliability of a source and the usefulness and accuracy of the information it provides. Candidates will meet and read portions of key Greek and Roman authors and will work with archaeological sources such as statues and buildings. There will therefore be a focus on the skills and methods used by historians of all periods when working with sources. This depth study also aims to train candidates as historians. Candidates who choose this depth study will therefore find that it complements their period study. We will look in particular at the achievements and treatment of individual politicians (such as Miltiades, Themistocles and Aristides), and at how the new government reacted to the growing power of Persia. We will examine how this democracy functioned in its early years. In Athens, the reforms of Cleisthenes led to the creation of the western world’s first known democracy. Moreover, they will investigate how and why the tyrannies in each city-state collapsed. In this depth study, candidates will examine and compare the origins, workings and development of the tyrannies of Athens and Samos. Tyranny was very common across the Greek world during the 6 th and 5 th centuries BC. This depth study will allow candidates to explore aspects of that political history in the 6 th and 5 th centuries BC, focusing on two systems of government (tyranny and democracy) and two Greek city-states (Athens and Samos). The origin of political systems has fascinated writers and thinkers in every age, and ancient Greek political history is a particularly interesting and varied area of exploration for students of the ancient world.

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This Teacher's Guide is taken from the OCR Tyranny to Democracy 546-483BC Teachers' Guide which can be accessed at the OCR website and downloaded in full here.