History·Ancient Greece & Rome·meta
Evidence for Greek and Roman Life
Understand that historians and archaeologists piece together ancient Greek and Roman life from evidence — pottery paintings, coins, inscriptions, ruins like Pompeii, and written texts by authors such as Homer and Pliny — and that the same evidence can be interpreted in different ways by different historians
Suggested ages 9–11
Evidence of understanding
- Name at least three types of evidence historians use to learn about ancient Greece and Rome
- Explain why Pompeii is especially valuable as a source of evidence about Roman life
- Give an example of how the same piece of evidence could be interpreted in more than one way
Assessment prompt
If Evidence for Greek and Roman Life saw an ancient Greek pot or a Roman coin in a museum, could they explain what historians can learn from objects like these and why different experts might interpret them differently?
Standards alignment
No external standards are linked to this topic.