Greek History IB and IIB Study Guide

Basis for Rating: The course was really helpful. I'd tried to learn about Greek History before but I always forgot a lot. Studying Herodotus and Thucydides really helped.Review: One thing about this course that had a lasting impact on me was the challenge it offered.  Before, I'd been pretty apt at just memorizing any important information and avoiding any note-taking I didn't think was necessary - or just writing down whatever occurred to me as something interesting I wanted to remember whether or not it was important.  Once I reached the ancient historian Herodotus, though, I found myself really having to concentrate and focus my notes.  The study guide STAA offers was really helpful then.  It had "Terms to Know" and "Study Guide Questions" that I could fill out the answers to and become a whole lot more confident in my memory.  The whole course really helped me stay on track with note taking.  The reading itself, particularly in Herodotus' The Histories, was also absolutely fascinating.  I thought the course was amazing.

Basis for Rating: I learned a lot from this course.Review: One important life lasting lesson that I learned from this course is how writing is so vastly different in each historian's account of history. When reading Herodotus and then Thucydides I came to realize how different each Historian wrote, even if it was the same information. I learned this especially through writing about each of them in GH1 Reflection Paper 11. In working on this assignment, I realized how much historians wrote from their personal point of view, especially in including or not including details. In the introduction to Thucydides, Hanson explains “Rather, the differences between the two stories lie more in approach, method, and the generation in which they lived” (Thucydides xii). I learned a lot in taking Greek History 1 and I hope many other STAA students can experience what I have.