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Title: Ancient Greece


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Ancient Greece
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Greece Geography
  • Mountainous
  • Peninsulas
  • Develop city-states

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Mountainous
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Islands!
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Greek City-States
  • Athens
  • Sparta

Shared Culture Battled Persia
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Athens and Sparta
  • 499 BCE 449 BCE Fight together in
    Greco-Persian war (300, Xerxes, Thermopylae)
  • 431-404 BCE Fight each other in Peloponnesian
    War
  • Athens loses

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Greek Culture
  • Government
  • DEMOCRACY! Assemblies, only male citizens vote
  • Architecture
  • Sculpture, columns
  • Literature
  • Comedy and tragedy

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Acropolis
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Greek Religion
  • Polytheistic
  • Zeus
  • Hades
  • Poseidon
  • Epic Poems-Trojan War, Iliad, Odyssey
  • Mythology
  • Medusa
  • Hercules

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Greek Philosophers Socrates
  • Question everything
  • Socratic method like a teacher-student
    discussion, led by questioning
  • Accused of corrupting youth

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Greek Philosophers Plato
  • Pupil to Socrates
  • The Republic
  • Seeks to define
  • Justice/Order
  • Allegory of the Cave
  • Correct form of government
  • Rule by philosophers

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Greek Philosophers Aristotle
  • Pupil of Plato
  • Physics, metaphysics, theater, music, logic,
    politics, ethics, etc
  • Teacher to Alexander the Great

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Alexander the Great
  • Macedonian (city-state in North Greece)
  • 356 323 BCE
  • Conquers all of Greece, Persia, and invades India
  • Hellenistic Culture blend of Greek, Persian,
    Indian, Egyptian
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