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Triremes Inquiry Unit
This historic narrative about the Greek Trireme reveals how this warship, a technological achievement of its time, played an important role in democracy and empire. Triremes Inquiry Unit Click H…
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Triremes Inquiry Unit
Story of the Greek Triremes and the engineering applications that made it the greatest warship of its time. Triremes Inquiry Unit Click Here to Download Video…
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In the fall of 480 BCE, Xerxes, the King of Persia, attacked Greece on land and at sea. While the land battle that ended with a Spartan stand to the last man at Thermopylae, has been burned into the c…
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Triremes Inquiry Unit
Please refer to the Triremes Hands-On-Activity Power Point found here Hands-on Activity PDF includes: Materials Directions Instructional PowerPoint Evaluation Worksheet Images C…
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Triremes Inquiry Unit
Photo taken from Ms. Bisconti’s 8th grade class, on Triremes - Democracy and Empire, 2016. Ms. Bisconti is a Social Studies Teacher, at Heritage Middle School, Livingston NJ (Note: An option prior t…
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Triremes Inquiry Unit
Triremes - Document 1 B (1) Ship on an Attic Geometric krater found at Thebes (London, British Museum 1899, 0219), Spathari, 1995: 65, fig. 71. The British Museum Research Collection Online Krater:…
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Triremes Inquiry Unit
Triremes - Inquiry Unit, Document 1B (2) Oared galley on an Assyrian relief found in the palace of Sennacherib at Kuyunjik. "Fragment of a stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib." Th…
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Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit
Teenagers venture out for a day of fishing and experience firsthand the value of maritime navigational technology. Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit Click Here to Download Video…
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Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit
Solving the Longitude problem was necessary to navigating the world's oceans and opening the door to global trade. Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit Click Here to Download Video…
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Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit
The video explains the important relationship of maritime navigational technologies in regards to global trade from the past through to today. Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit Click Here t…
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