Unit 3 Chapters (6-9)
 Peninsula Epic Acropolis City-State Aristocrat Tyrant Democracy Tribute Immortal-
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 Peloponnesian War
 Blockade Assassinate Hellenistic Patrician Consul Dictator Colosseum Polytheism-
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 Census Circus Jesus Disciple Martyr Mercenary-
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 Objectives-
• 1 Understand how Greece’s geographic setting
influenced the development of the civilization
• 2 Examine Early Greek History
• 3 Examine the development of Democracy
Geography
•Mountains
•Peninsulas
•Made travel and
community
partnership hard
•Only 20% of the
land was
farmable
Origins
• Arose on and off
the mainland
• Minoans
•Mycenaeans
• Wars
Government
•Development of
City States
• Democracy
• Aristocracy
• Nobility
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 Greece
is made up of Peninsula’s, or
areas of land surrounded by water on 3
sides
 Because of the mnts. Only about 20% of
Greece is farmable
 What would you do then if you couldn’t
farm for survival?
 Early
Greeks evolved on and off
mainland Greece
 Two most prominent ancient groups:
Minoans and Mycenaeans
 Greek life was about evolving, trading,
communication and spreading language
and new ideas
 3000-1100
B.C.
 Bronze age people
 Lived on the Island of Crete (Med. Sea)
 Developed wide spread and successful
sea trade
 Took
over around 1400 B.C.
 Blended mainland Greece and Island
cultures into one
 Spoke an early form of modern Greek
 Gained power not only through trade, but
through conquest (battles)
 Myth
of a war between Greece and Troy
 Greeks tricked the Trojans with a fake
horse
 The story was written into an Epic, a long
story telling poem
 The two epics involving the Trojan War
are the Iliad and the Odyssey
 Author
of the Iliad and the Odyssey
 Greek
civilization took a turn for the
worse
 Their society collapsed and the focused
changed
 What was the focus of Greek society?
 What did it change to?
 City
states developed all over Greece,
why?
 City-States were run by Aristocrats
 New type of ruler is created, a Tyrant
 The advent of Democracy
 Strict Rules- Who can participate in
our(USA) democracy?
 Who could participate in Grecian
democracy?
 Pg. 175
 (1-
A/B)
 (3- A)
 Golden
Age of Athens:
 479-431 B.C.
 Trade
 Tribute
 Mining
 12
Olympians
 Temples
 Gods were immortal
 Zeus ( king of gods)
 Mythical heroes (Achilles)
 City States had their own
 Honor Zeus by competing every four
years
 Birth of what?
 Oracles
(shrines where the gods spoke)
 Philosophers
 Socrates
 Plato
(Socrates student (academy)
 Aristotle (Plato’s student (Lyceum)
 The
spread of culture King Philip of Macedonia
 Macedonians (thought themselves
Greeks, Greeks thought Macedonians
were barbarians)
 Barbarians- wild, uncivilized people
 After
conquering Greece, Philip wanted
Persia. He was assassinated before he
could do so.
 Alexander took over and avenged his
fathers death
 Within 11 years he had conquered Persia,
Egypt, land beyond the Indus into India.
He earned the title “Alexander the
Great”
 The last battle…(Achilles was his hero)
 Alexander’s
empire was split into 3
 One commander for each region
 (Greece/Macedonia) (Egypt) (Persia)
 They fought for 300 years over the land
Alexander conquered
 Time after Alexander was called
Hellenistic period
 Center
for learning
 Huge libraries
 Math and Science
 Geometry created
 Archimedes creates pulley systems and
levers.