Alexander the Great Fact File

Year 5 HistoryAncient Greece4 pages

About this worksheet

A four-page fact file on Alexander the Great for Year 5. Page 1 is a short text with a map that marks Macedon, Pella, Alexandria, Babylon and India. It gives his birth in Pella in 356 BC, his tutor Aristotle, his crowning in 336 BC at the age of 20 and his death in Babylon in 323 BC. Pupils fill in seven boxes from the text, sketch a symbol of his empire, then write two or three sentences on whether he deserves the name 'the Great'. Model answers are on the last page. It follows the England National Curriculum study of Ancient Greece.

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Alexander the Great Fact File: Ancient Greece - page 1
Alexander the Great Fact File: Ancient Greece - page 2
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Curriculum objectives covered

KS2 History

“Ancient Greece - a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world”

Box 4 and question 8 ask how Alexander spread Greek language and ideas from Egypt to India.

KS2 History

“They should regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.”

Question 8 asks pupils to weigh his empire against the suffering his wars caused, then judge the name 'the Great'.

What's inside this worksheet

Reading text and map

Three short paragraphs cover his birth, the conquest of the Persian Empire, Alexandria in Egypt and the stories of Bucephalus and the Gordian Knot. The map below shows how far east he went.

Key Facts

Seven boxes to fill in: year and place of birth, tutor, becoming king, conquests, the city he founded, year and place of death, and one surprising fact.

Historical Significance

Pupils sketch a symbol of the empire, such as a coin or Bucephalus, then write 2 to 3 sentences on his influence and his title.

Answers

Answers for every box, with model answers for the surprising fact and the significance question.

How teachers use it

Read the map first

Read page 1 aloud with the map on the board. Trace the route from Pella to India with your finger before pupils start the boxes.

For and against

Split the class into two sides before question 8. The text gives both: an empire that reached India, and the destruction his conquests caused.

Early finishers

Box 7 asks for one surprising fact. Pupils who finish early can look up a fact that is not on page 1 and share it at the end.

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