ANCIENT GREECE
Who settled on the island of Crete?
Minoans
 How did the geography influence the Minoans?
Grew wheat, barley, grapes and olives. Also,
traded and built ships.
 Who discovered the Cretan civilization?
Sir Arthur Evans
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LOCATE THE FOLLOWING:
Thermopylae
 Attica
 Salamis
 Sparta
 Asia Minor
 Ionian Sea
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Delphi
Marathon
Corinth
Peloponnesus
Ionia
Aegean Sea
Thebes
Athens
Olympia
Knossus
Black Sea
Med. Sea
STORY OF THE MINOTAUR
1. Theseus- prince
 2. King Aegeus- Aegean Sea
 3. Read page 155/take notes: The Fall of the
Minoans
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THE LEGEND FROM CRETE
THE MYCENAEANS
Who discovered the Mycenaean civilization?
Heinrich Schliemann
 In what ways were the Mycenaeans influenced
by the Minoan culture?
Copied metal work, fashions, learned how to
build ships.
 Who was the Mycenaean king?
King Agamemnon
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ROLE PLAYING LEGENDS
Paris-Kidnapped Helen
Helen- beauty
 Meneleus- King of Sparta
Athena- Wisdom
 Agamemnon-King of Mycenae
 Hera- Protector of marriage
Aphrodite- love
 Zeus- King of the Gods
Achilles-”heel”
 Hermes-messenger
Minotaur- monster
 Aegeus- Sea
Patroclus- cousin
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ROLE PLAYING LEGENDS
Eris-conflict
 Hercules-three apples
 Pelus-Thetus
 Discord-disagreement
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Poseidon-sea
Atlas-sky
Styx-river
THE TROJAN WAR
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Background information:
King MenelausHector:
Achilles:
King Agamemnon
Causes of the war:
 The face that launched a thousand ships!
Events: Trojan Horse- Beware of the Greeks
bearing gifts.
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Results: Greeks victory
City States Location
Gov’t
Way of
life
Religion
Women
Rights
Athens
1. Monarchy
Age 7
Tutored
Polytheism
No Rights Education
Member
Polytheism
Rights
Not a
Member
Pelopon
nesus
league
Southeastern
part of
Greece
Goal
Ideology
Dalian
League
2. Oligarchy
3. Direct
Democracy
Age 18
Citizen
Military
Assembly
Sparta
1. South
ern
part of
the
Peloponne
sus
Penins
ula
1. Monarchy
2. Totalitarian
At birth,
babies
were
inspect
ed by
the
council
of
Elders
Age 7 military
Miltary
PERSIAN WAR
Darius I – king of the Persians
 Mardonius – Persian General
 Marathon – Surprise attack
 Pheidippides – runner who yelled Nike
 Xerxes – Persian King
 Thermopylae – 300 spartans
 Salamis – sea battle, Greek victory
 Plataea – last battle of war, Greek victory
 Golden Age of Athens
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GOLDEN AGE OF ATHENS
Olympic Games
Euclid
 Theater
Ptolemy
 Socrates
 Plato
 Aristotle
 Archimedes
 Hippocrates
 Gods and Goddesses
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ARCHIMEDES
GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE
THE WORLD
OLYMPIC GAMES
Held in honor of Zeus
 Pentathlon- made up of five events
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Today: held every four years
 Colors represent one common color in all
participating countries.
 Winner: Gold, Silver and Bronze medals
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SOCRATES
Athenian Philosopher
 He believed people could discover truth if they
knew how to think
 Socratic Method- teaching by asking questions
 Socrates tried before a jury
 Found guilty
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PLATO
Socrates student
 Set up a school called The Academy
 Wrote a book called The Republic
 The book was made up of Dialogues
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ARISTOTLE
Plato’s student
 Known as “the master of them that know”
 Classified plants and animals
 Developed the third step in the scientific
method—testing
 Developed a method of reasoning called
syllogism
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ARISTOTLE
Philosopher
 Plato’s student
 Classified plants and animals
 Method of reasoning called syllogism
Athenians are Greeks
Socrates is an Athenian
Therefore, Socrates is Greek
 Tutored Alexander the Great
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THEATER
Held in honor of Dionysus
 Greek poet named Aeschylus
 Tragedies
 Comedy
 Used very few actors
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HIPPOCRATES
Worked in the field of medicine
 Founder of scientific medicine
 Father of scientific medicine
 He believed that diseases came from natural
causes
 Developed the Hippocratic Oath
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EUCLID
Mathematician
 Collected and organized information on
Geometry
 Established the Euclid elements
 Developed rules in Geometry
 “Father of Geometry”
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PELOPONNESIAN WAR
Causes: 1. Contrast in Leagues 2. Commerce/ Trade
 Events:
Phase 1
Sparta repeated invasion of Attica. Athens raided the
coast of Peloponnese with their naval supremacy.
Signed a peace treaty
Phase 2
Athens attacked Syracuse but failed.
Phase 3
Sparta receives help from Persia
Result:
Peloponnesian League victory
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ALEXANDER: FILM QUESTIONS
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What term describes a divine gift?
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What were the three city-states that became the center of the Greek Empire?
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What was the fighting technique when one person fought next to another?
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What did a soothsayer explain to Philip about his son?
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Who tutored Alexander?
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What was the name of the battle fought in the heart land of Persia?
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What was Alexander’s grand battle strategy?
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What are the sides called in a military formation?
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What was the name of the knot to rule the world? How did Alexander solve this problem?
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______ is extension of ______ by other __________.
REVIEW SHEETS
Sir Arthur Evans Heinrich Schliemann
 Minotaur
Iliad and Odyssey
 Helen
Aristotle
 Philip II
Comedies/Tragedies
 Peloponnesian War Hippocrates
 Agamemnon
Plato
 Pheidippedes
Hellenistic Age
 Delian League
Socrates
 Archimedes
Zeus
 Council of Elders
Phalanx
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REVIEW SHEETS
Direct Democracy
 Representative Demo.
 Thermopylae
 Totalitarian
 Chronological Order
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Monarchy
Salamis
Chaeronea
Trojan Horse
ANSWERS TO THE REVIEW SHEETS
Discovered Cretans
 Lived in labyrinth
 Cause of Trojan War
 Held hostage in Thebes
 Sparta
 King of Mycenae
 Runner
 Two leagues
 Levers and pulleys
 Inspected the babies
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Discovered Troy
two poems by Homer
tutored Alexander
two plays
Father of Medicine
wrote the Republic
like the Hellenes
teaching by questions
Olympic God
military strategy
ANSWERS TO THE REVIEW SHEETS
All citizens take part in gov’t one ruler/ king
 USA gov’t
Ended Persian War
 300 Spartans
Greeks defeated
 Power by a few
Gift of the Greeks
 Chronological Order:
 Remember the order I taught the events…..
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