Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece

• A quick review

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The Geography of Greece
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Archaic Greece 1650 BCE - 700 BCE
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Bronze Age Greece
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Crete Minoan Civilization(Palace at Knossos)
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Knossos Minoan Civilization
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Minoan Civilization
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The Mycenaean Civilization
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Homer The Heroic Age
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The Mask of Agamemnon
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"Hellenic" (Classical) Greece 700 BCE - 324 BCE
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ATHENS Yesterday Today
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Piraeus Athens Port City
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Early Athenian Lawgivers

• Draco
• draconian
• Solon
• Cleisthenes
• created the first democracy!

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Persian Wars 499 BCE 480 BCE
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Persian Wars Famous Battles

• Marathon (490 BCE)
• 26 miles from Athens
• Thermopylae (480 BCE)
• 300 Spartans at the Mountain pass
• Salamis (480 BCE)
• Athenian navy victorious

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Golden Age of Pericles460 BCE 429 BCE
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Phidias Acropolis
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The Acropolis Today
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The Parthenon
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The Agora
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The Classical Greek Ideal
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Olympia
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The Ancient OlympicsAthletes Trainers
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Olympia Temple to Hera
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The 2004 Olympics
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SPARTA
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SPARTA
Helots ? Messenians enslaved by the
Spartans.
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Peloponnesian Wars
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Macedonia Under Philip II
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