The Persian Wars and the Battle of Marathon

Key stage 2 history

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

Question 4 asks why saving Athens's democracy at Marathon let Greek ideas shape the western world.

Aims of the history curriculum

“Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narrative and analyses”

Question 1 builds a sequence of six events, and question 2 splits six statements into cause and consequence.

Key stage 2 history

“They should understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.”

The fact or legend table asks how we know each claim. The key contrasts Herodotus, writing about 60 years after the battle, with a story written down centuries later.