3000 BCE 338 BCE By Harry Green Location Climate Hot and dry summers Not much rain Geography On a plain 215 meters above sea level Acropilis Food Farmed ID: 422542
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Thebes Birthplace of Hercules
3000 BCE – 338 BCE
By Harry GreenSlide2
Location
Climate
Hot and dry summers Not much rain
Geography On a plain 215 meters above sea level AcropilisSlide3
Food
Farmed
Olives Grapes
FishTraded for Cheese Pork Wheat
BarleySlide4
Government
Oligarchy
Few leaders Rich people (Aristocrats) ruled
Poor people didn’t have much say Switched to Slide5
Religion
Beliefs
May gods Titans
Underworld Effects Pottery Ceremonies
Sacrifice animals Built templesSlide6
Architecture
Temple of Apollo
Covered walkways or porticos
TheatersAgoras Clay, bricks, and stoneSlide7
Social structure
Jobs
Most jobs were similar to what we have now
Some were Baker Priest Merchant Carpenter
Men and women had different jobsSocial classes
UpperMiddle LowerSlaves It varies from city state to city state but mostly women were not treated the same as men
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Arts
Painted pictures
Made pottery
Sculpted sculpturesBuilt temples and other buildingsSlide9
Writing
Linear B
Wrote on tablets
Scribes wroteSlide10
Technology and L
egacy
Spears
Short swords
They were a ware like city that did very wellWas the birthplace of Hercules