GHW.4.1%20Explain%20the%20causes%20and%20conditions%20of%20worldwide%20voyages%20of%20exploration,%20discovery%20and%20conquest.

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Greece

• GHW.4.1 Explain the causes and conditions of
  worldwide voyages of exploration, discovery and
  conquest.
• Alexander the Great and the Helenistic Period

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Greece

• Minoan Civilization-Crete
• Mycenaean- 1400 BCE- Olympic gods
• Heroic Period- Trojan War
• 800-500 BCE- rise of polis
• Athens Sparta
• Persian Wars- Starts 490 BCE
• Peloponnesian Wars
• Philip of Macedon- Macedonia-North of Greece

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Macedonia

• Phillips Army-Phalanx w/ 18ft pikes
• Conquest of Greece
• 338 BCE- Phillip defeats Athens
• Alexander 18 leads cavalry
• 336 BCE Phillip assassinated

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Persia

• 20 when king
• Aristotle- Iliad
• 334 BCE- 35000 troops to Anatolia
• Darius III- 75,000 troops
• Defeated and Flees
• Persia was Alexanders

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Egypt

• 332 BCE
• Builds Cities
• Alexandria
• Crowned Pharaoh

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Mesopotamia

• Darius III-250,000 men
• Defeated Darius
• Babylon
• Persian Empire gone

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Conquest

• 327 BCE- India
• Fought 11 years 11,000 miles
• 323 BCE- return to Babylon
• Death
• Kingdom split among Generals

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Hellenistic Culture

• Greek, Egyptian, Persian Indian blend
• Pharos- Lighthouse in Egypt
• Aristarchus- planets revolve around sun
• Ptolemy- Earth in center of solar system, lasted
  for 14 centuries
• Euclid- Elements used until 1900s
• Archimedes- value of pi
• Colossus of Rhodes- seven wonders of the world
• 150 BCE- Hellenistic Culture declines to Rome

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Pharos
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Winged Nike of Samothrace
Colossus at Rhodes
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Vocab for Test

• Peloponnesian Wars
• Direct Democracy
• Tragedy
• Heroic Period
• Pericles
• Epics
• Persian Wars
• Iliad
• Polis
• Philosopher

• Hellenistic
• Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Homer
• Sparta
• Athens
• Comedy
• Aristocracy
• Phalanx
• Minoan Civilization

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