World History

1
World History

• Ancient Greece
• Chapter 4

2
Greek Geography

• Small Plains
• Isolated Valleys
• Small Harbors and Inlets
• Many Islands
• High Mountains
• INDEPENDENCE

3
Minoan Crete

• 3000 BC 1500 BC
• Knossos Main City
• Huge Palaces
• No Walls
• Art glorifies sport not warfare
• Mediterranean Trade routes
• Tidal Wave wipes out Population or

4
Mycenaean Greece

• First Greek State
• 1600 BC 1100BC
• Fortified Cities
• No Art, or Primitive
• Trojan War 1220 BC
• Spreads resources thin - Downfall

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Paris taking Helen
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Dark Ages

• 300 Years of Post War Depression
• No Unity
• Age of Homer
• Iliad and Odyssey
• Showed Greeks how to be Greeks
• Code of Nobility, Heros, Struggle, Competition,
  Attitudes and Values,
• What Runs the Universe
• Fate above the Gods wishes

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Athens - Democracy

• 800 BC Theocracy
• Agricultural monopoly
• 700 BC Aristocracy
• Huge slave population
• 600 BC Oligarchy
• Merchant Economy established
• 500 BC Democracy
• Middle class emerges
• Council of 500

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WAR

• Persian Wars (499 479 BC)
• Ionian Revolt lead to Revenge
• Marathon Pheidippides (490)
• Thermopylae
• Salamis
• Lessons
• Free people will defeat slave armies everytime.

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More War

• Peloponnesian War (431 404 BC)
• Athens v. Sparta
• New v. Old
• Artistic v. Militaristic
• Democracy v. Monarchy
• Sparta outlasts Athens
• Democracy and Ideals gone

10
Hellenistic

• Alexander the Great
• Pupil of Aristotle
• King at 19
• Spreads Greek Culture and Ideas
• Macedonia
• Middle East - Iran
• Egypt - Alexandria
• Turned back in India
• Paid homage to all gods

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Hellenistic Culture - Architecture
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Hellenistic Culture - Sculpture
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Hellenistic

• Literature
• Appolonius of Rhodes Argonautica
• Science
• Eratosthenes
• Euclid
• Archimedes
• Philosophy
• Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
• Epicureanism, Stoicism