Northeastern Mediterranean Sea Aegean Sea to the East Ionian Sea to the West Long uneven coastline Sea played an important role in Greece Mountainous kept villages apart couldnt unite allowed invaders from the North ID: 656752
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GreeceSlide2
Southern part of the Balkan PeninsulaNortheastern Mediterranean Sea
Aegean Sea to the East, Ionian Sea to the WestLong, uneven coastlineSea played an important role in Greece
Mountainous, kept villages apart, couldn’t unite, allowed invaders from the NorthShort rivers, unnavigableGeography kept a large empire from forming, instead city-states develop
GeographySlide3
Minoans:Lived on the island of Crete
Named after King MinosSailors and tradersStrong navies
In 1628 a tidal wave destroyed many settlements and Minoan civilization grew weak.Early GreeksSlide4
MycenaeansLived on Greek mainland
Conquered MinoansWarring peopleBuilt fort-like cities in the Peloponnesus
By 1200 BC earthquakes and war had destroyed most citiesUsed linear B, a form of writing used by the Minoans, that served as an early form of Greek writing
Early GreeksSlide5
Polis is the Greek word for city-stateA polis developed around a fort (acropolis)
Made up of the fort, city and farming villagesIndependent and self sufficientRepresented Greek identity
Small with a small populationAgora-marketplace, public meeting placeEach had on government and laws, calendar, money, and weights and measurementsAll spoke same language and shared many religious and cultural
charactersiticsCity-StatesSlide6
PolytheisticDid not emphasize personal morality
Greeks looked to religion for 3 things:To explain natureTo explain emotions
Attain certain benefitsNot concerned with life after deathUsed myths-stories about gods and goddessesZeus and AthenaPleasing gods was important
Olympic GamesReligionSlide7
Using pages 111-112 and 115-117 complete the graphic organizer entitled Greece: The Birthplace of Democracy
GovernmentSlide8
Sparta & Athens-
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113-120Slide9
Persian WarsBattle of Marathon
Battle of ThermopylaePlateaDelian
League-PericlesPeloponnesian WarAthens vs. Sparta
Expansion of GreeceSlide10
Greek ArtPhilosophers
SocratesPlatoAristotle
Golden AgeSlide11
Son of Phillip II of MacedonStudent of Aristotle
Skilled military commanderConquered Persia, Asia Minor, Egypt, and MesopotamiaBecomes seriously ill and dies at 33 in 323 BC
Alexander purposely spread Greek culture wherever he wentThe mixture of cultures from the Mediterranean and Asia become known as Hellenistic Culture
Alexander the GreatSlide12
Hellenistic culture produced great achievements in the arts, sciences, philosophy, and religion.
Characterized by many new advancements in technology.List 3 achievements from Hellenistic culture on your graphic organizer.
Hellenistic Culture