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Objective to complete the power point by filling
in the blanks. Take notes from links, dates,
people, places, key terms.
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• There was no single Greek religion.
• Officials in each ____were in charge
  
  of public feasts and
  s_______s.
• Greek priests and priestesses often served
  as______, or persons who, it was
  believed, could speak with the gods.
• Oracles generally give advice in the form
  of a______, or a statement of what might
  happen in the future.

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• During the Golden Age, the Greeks
  worshiped the gods of Mount Olympus.
• There were ___major gods and goddesses.
  Each had specific duties to carry out.
• The Greeks placed importance
  
  on the worth of the _______, allowing
  
  them to approach their gods with
  dignity.
• The Greeks built temples and held
  
  festivals, including the _______ Games
  
  and the theater, to _____ their gods.

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Mount Olympus and the Gods of Greek Religion

• Questions to answer while watching the video
  clip
• How many Olympian gods were there?
• How did the gods control and get involved with
  humans?
• List two gods and their symbols?

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Every ______years, in the middle of summer,

a festival was
held in Olympia to honor the

god _____. The festival was
known as the

Olympic Games and was the most important

sporting event in Greece.
Athletes came from all over ______ and

from Greek colonies in
Africa, Italy, and

Asia Minor to take part in the
games. Only ____ were allowed to take part


women were not even allowed to watch. The
Olympics were made up of many events including
______ _____________________, Boxing,
pancratiuma combination of boxing and
wrestling, pentathlonmade up of five events
running, jumping, throwing the discus,
wrestling, and hurling the javelin Between
the different events at the games, _____ read
their works aloud. _________, the Father
of History, first read his account of the
Persian Wars at the Olympics.
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The theater grew out of festivals given in honor

of the god
________. About the time of the Persian Wars, a
Greek
poet named
________ added an additional

character to each story. He created what
came
to be known as
a ______. The first Greek plays were _______,
or stories
about
suffering. All dealt with the past and with

the
___________ between people and gods. Three of
the great writers of tragedy were Aeschylus,
__________, and Euripides. The ________, or a
play with a happy ending, came into being soon
after. Greek comedies were about the ______. One
of the greatest writers of Greek comedy was
__________. Greek plays were performed only
at community festivals in _____ _____
theaters. Each actor wore a huge _____ and
plaster mask that showed the sex, age, and mood
of the character. The Greeks believed support
of the theater was a ______ responsibility.
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• Questions to answer while watching the video
  clip
• How long did the ancient Olympic games last?
• What occurred during the first day of the
  Olympic games?
• What prizes were awarded to the winners? (more
  than 1!!)

The Olympic Games
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Among the things on which the Greeks placed
great importance was _______, or the ability
to learn and reason. To the Greeks,
studying the laws of nature and loving wisdom
were the same thing they called it
__________. Today, people who search for
such
knowledge and wisdom are
known as
scientists and
________. Much of what they know is based on
the
______of the Greeks.
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In 399 B.C., _______, a 70-year-old

Athenian philosopher, was tried in

Athens. He believed people could discover

______ if they knew
how to think. In his search for truth,
Socrates walked throughout _____ trying to
teach people how to think. He did this by
asking ______. This form of questioning is
known as the _______ _______. Socrates was
tried before a jury of some _____ citizens and
sentenced to death.
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• All that is known about Socrates comes
  from one of his pupils, an Athenian
  aristocrat named ______.
• Plato set up the ______, a school to
  train government leaders, outside Athens
  in the sacred grove of the hero _________.
• He thought political liberty was ________
  
  and did not approve of
  it.
• Plato set down his ideas about an ideal
  
  state in a book called ____
  _______ the
  first book
  ever written on ______ _______.
• In a work called ___ _______, Plato
  
  showed how difficult it is to discover truth.
  
  They consist of a series of
  discussions in
  which
  different people talk about such things
  
  as _____ and loyalty.

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• ________ was one of Platos brightest pupils.
• Before he died in ______, he founded his
  
  own school in Athens and wrote
  more than
  200 books.
• He believed in using ones _______ to discover
  
  the laws that govern the
  physical world.
• Aristotle also added to the ideas of an early
  Greek scientist named _____ __ ______.
  Thales developed the first two steps of what
  is known today as the _____ __________.
• First, Thales collected _______.
• Then, based on what he observed, he formed a
  __________, or possible explanation.
• Aristotle said that a ________ must be tested
  to see if it is correct.
• Aristotle contributed the _________ ,a method of
  reasoning that uses three related statements to
  logic, or the science of reasoning

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Socrates Plato Aristotle
Education
Location of teaching
Accomplishments
Beliefs
One of Platos brightest students
Private business
Greece, Egypt and Italy Academus in Athens
Walked through Athens
Convicted of being a threat to Athens
First to classify plants and animals Scientific
method Wrote 200 books
Order Thought that only the wise should rule
Use of senses to discover laws that govern the
physical world
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ANCIENT GREEKPHILOSOPHY

• Questions to answer while watching the video
  clip
• What does philosopher mean?
• What was Socrates method of teaching?
• Why was Socrates placed on trial?
• What was Platos book about government called?
• In Platos book, whom did he write should be in
• charge of the government?
• 6. Which scholars kept the ancient Greeks works
  from
• being lost?

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Greek scientistsGreek Scientists.ppt
discovered that natural events are not caused
by the way gods behave. They also learned
that the world is ________ by natural laws
that people can discover and understand.
____ ____ _____ not only developed

the first two steps of the
scientific method,
but also
correctly predicted an eclipse of

the sun in 585 B.C. The Father of Scientific
Medicine was
_________. Hippocrates drew up a
list
of rules about how
doctors should use their

skills to help their patients, which is known

today as the Hippocratic Oath. Doctors
all over the world still promise to

honor the _______ _______.
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HEALING in Ancient Greece

• Questions to answer while watching the video
• Who was Asclepius?
• Which creature did he learn the art of healing
  from?
• How did a patient get treatment prescribed for
• their illness?

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Critical Thinking Questions
How important was religion in ancient Greek
civilization? How did tragedies differ from
comedies? Why is the scientific method important
to modern science? What would you have done if it
had been your decision whether or not to put
Socrates on trial?