The Rise Of Greek Civilization (sect 1)

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The Rise Of Greek Civilization(sect 1)

• Turn in homework, get out your notebook and a pen
  or pencil
• Tonights Homework 6.1 Worksheet

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Greeces Geographic Setting

• What do you notice?

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Geography

• The land of Greece looks as if the sea has
  smashed it to pieces. Some pieces have drifted
  away to form small, rocky islands.

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Geography

• Greece is a peninsula an area of land
  surrounded by water on three sides.
• Mountains are the major landform.
• So there are only small patches of farmland.
• 1/5 of land is good for growing crops.
• What does this tell us about how they will live?

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Video

• 4 minutes

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Geography

• The Greeks became traders and sailors.
• See how geography affects what people do for a
  living?
• The mountains also cut people off from
  interacting with other people in the same land.

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Video

• 1 min

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Greek Beginnings

• All Greeks shared a wealth of stories and myths
  about their origins. The myths explained the
  creation of the universe and the features of
  nature. They described the adventures of Greek
  heroes and gods. Various stories told how
  cities and traditions came to be.

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The Trojan War

• Starts when Helen is kidnapped by a prince named
  Paris.
• 10 long years the war drags on. Many heroes on
  both sides perished. At last, the Greeks
  conquered Troy by a trick The Trojan Horse.

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The Trojan Horse

• Greek warriors hid inside a huge wooden horse.
  The horse was rolled to the city gates. The
  Trojans thought it was a gift to the gods, so
  they brought it into their city. During the
  night the Greek soldiers climbed out of the horse
  and let the rest of their army into Troy.

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The Dark Ages

• Early 1100s B.C. to about 750 B.C.
• Greek civilization collapsed at the beginning of
  this time period. Life went on, but poverty was
  everywhere. People no longer traded for food and
  other goods beyond Greece. They had to depend on
  what they could raise themselves.
• People built farms on an acropolis high city

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City-States

• Sometime around 750 B.C., villages in a small
  area probably joined together to form a city in
  the shadow of an acropolis.
• Each one was not only a city, but also a separate
  independent state. Today, we call these tiny
  nations city-states.

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Video

• 1 min

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Type of governments

• Aristocracy Noble Rule
• The earliest rulers of city-states were probably
  chieftains or kings who were military leaders.
• Aristocrats members of the rich and powerful
  families.
• They controlled most of the good land. They
  could afford horses, chariots, and the best
  weapons to make themselves stronger than others.

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2nd government

• Tyrant a ruler who seized power by force.
• Major Theme When people are unhappy they
  overthrow their government usually by force
• Thats how tyrants came to rule. People got
  tired of the aristocrats and their ways.

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3rd Government

• Democracy citizens govern themselves.
• First used in the city-state of Athens.
• Solon brought laws in that reformed both the
  economy and the government of Athens.

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Video - Democracy

• 3 min

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Not Everyone Benefited

• Only 1 in 5 Athenians was a citizen.
• Some people were enslaved. They were not allowed
  to take part in the democracy nor were women and
  foreigners.