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Title: Regents Review - Ancient Greece


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GREECE
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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!

15
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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Great Athenian Philosophers
  • Socrates
  • Know thyself!
  • question everything
  • only the pursuit of goodnessbrings happiness.
  • Plato
  • The Academy
  • The world of the FORMS
  • The Republic ? philosopher-king

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Great Athenian Philosophers
  • Aristotle
  • The Lyceum
  • Golden Mean everything inmoderation.
  • Logic.
  • Scientific method.

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Athens The Arts Sciences
  • DRAMA (tragedians)
  • Aeschylus
  • Sophocles
  • Euripides
  • THE SCIENCES
  • Pythagoras
  • Democritus ? all matter made up of
    small atoms.
  • Hippocrates ? Father of Medicine

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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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"Hellenistic" Greece 324 BCE - 100 BCE
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Alexander the Great
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Alexander the Greats Empire
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Alexander the Great in Persia
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The Hellenization of Asia
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Pergamum A Hellenistic City
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The Economy of the Hellenistic World
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Hellenistic Philosophers
  • Cynics ? Diogenes
  • ignore social conventions avoid luxuries.
  • citizens of the world.
  • live a humble, simple life.
  • Epicurians ? Epicurus
  • avoid pain seek pleasure.
  • all excess leads to pain!
  • politics should be avoided.

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Hellenistic Philosophers
  • Stoics ? Zeno
  • nature is the expansion of divine will.
  • concept of natural law.
  • get involved in politics, not for personal
    gain, but toperform virtuous acts for the good
    of all.
  • true happiness is found ingreat achievements.

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Hellenism The Arts Sciences
  • Scientists / Mathematicians
  • Aristarchus ? heliocentric theory.
  • Euclid ? geometry
  • Archimedes ? pulley
  • Hellenistic Art
  • More realistic less ideal than Hellenic art.
  • Showed individual emotions, wrinkles, and age!

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The Breakup of Alexanders Empire
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