INVESTIGATING CIVILISATIONS: THE PERSIANS

Student textbook: overview

The Persians is a full-colour, 58-page textbook for use with students aged 11 and above.

Each double-page spread focuses on a particular topic, which provides an area of study for one or two lessons. The book contains 26 topics in total, including:

Geography of Iran,
Sources of knowledge,
Cyrus' empire,
Persepolis,
The Ionian revolt,
Xerxes' invasion of Greece,
Alexander the Great, and
The Parthians.

For a full list of topics, please see the Contents sample page (below).

Teacher's website

To support the textbook, the Teacher's website is an entirely free online guide to using The Persians in the classroom. The website is designed for specialist and non-specialist teachers alike:

Student textbook: ordering

Copies of The Persians cost £6 each in the UK, $8.50 USD in NA.

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Student textbook: sample pages

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1. Contents

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2. Geography of Iran

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3. Darius as king

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4. Xerxes invades Greece

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5. Alexander the Great

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6. Index

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