Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece
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Geography of Greece
Small plains and river valleys surrounded by high
mountain ranges, a long seacoast dotted by bays
and inlets-many harbors
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Epic Poem a long poem that tells the deeds of a
great hero.
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Homer

• wrote the first great epic poems of Greece-Iliad
  and the Odyssey
• thought to have created, rather than to have
  recorded, Greek history
• stories are believed to be based on historical
  fact
• gave Greece an ideal past to serve as a model
  for future generations
• taught courage and honor

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The Polis-a town, city, or village, along with
its surrounding countryside.
Acropolis-fortified area on top of a hill in the
polis-sometimes became a religious center.
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The Parthenon-a temple dedicated to Athena,
patron goddess of Athens.
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Sparta

• military state-boys spent childhood learning
  military discipline, age 20-60 enrolled in the
  military
• females were expected to exercise and remain fit
  to bear and raise healthy children

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Athens

• longest continuously inhabited city in the
  world-3,000 years
• place where humanism and democracy were born
• education for males
• birth place of great philosophers

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