Year 12 Ancient - Delian League Map

Here is a map showing the major Greek alliances in the 5th Century BC - the Delian league (Athena and its allies) and the Peloponnesian League (Sparta and its allies). The Delian League was mainly an anti-Persian grouping, aimed at fostering trade, at freeing the Ionian poleis, and ensuring Athenian supremacy in the Aegean. The Peloponnesian League was mainly a defensive alliance, aimed at controlling the helots, bolstering Sparta's small population, and ensuring Spartan predominance in the Peloponnese. Over the decades following the Persian Wars, the two leagues jostled for power, and eventually conflict broke out between them, culminating in the destructive Second Peoloponnesian War (431-404BC).

Year 12 Ancient - Map of Ancient Greece

Below is a map showing the major city states (poleis) of Ancient Greece - Sparta and Athens - along with their main allies. Athens and Sparta were both at their height around 500BC, and competed for hegemony (dominance) of the area we now call Ancient Greece.

In reality, Greece was not one country, but many island- and city-states, scattered around the Eastern Mediterranean from Macedonia and Thrace in the north, to Crete in the south, to Ionia (Turkey) in the east.

Sparta's allies (in purple)were called the Peloponnesian League, as Sparta was the main state on the Peloponnese peninsula.

Athens' allies (in orange) were called the Delian League, after the island of Delos where the states agreed to help each other.

You can click on the map below to gain a larger image.

Year 12 Modern - Map of the Western Front

For a brief animated history of the war, check out this page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/launch_ani_western_front.shtml

Have a hunt around the BBC World War One site - there are plenty of interactive thingummys to play around with.

Year 12 Ancient - Archaeology at Pompeii

Hi guys,

The final topic for Pompeii is on the archaeological issues associated with the site. Here are a few links that will extend on what we cover in class:

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/pompeii/index.html - An online guide to archaeology, including some useful field notes and a tour of some insulae, by the Anglo-American project.

http://www.emsei.psu.edu/~hoaglund/Pompeii.html - Has a good high-res map of the site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/pompeii_rediscovery_02.shtml - BBC article about Giuseppe Fiorelli

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/daily_life_gallery.shtml - Gallery of artefacts associated with daily life

http://www.pompeiisites.org/ - The official Pompeii website, with some great satellite photos, and plenty of other info...not all of it in English, though.

For revision and maybe some fun...try this webquest (probably for a younger age group, but it will still help you): http://pangea.tec.selu.edu/~samacker/pompeiiwebquest.html