Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece
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Greece Geography

• Mountainous
• Peninsulas
• Develop city-states

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Mountainous
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Islands!
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Greek City-States

• Athens

• Sparta

Shared Culture Battled Persia
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Athens and Sparta

• 499 BCE 449 BCE Fight together in
  Greco-Persian war (300, Xerxes, Thermopylae)
• 431-404 BCE Fight each other in Peloponnesian
  War
• Athens loses

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Greek Culture

• Government
• DEMOCRACY! Assemblies, only male citizens vote
• Architecture
• Sculpture, columns
• Literature
• Comedy and tragedy

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Acropolis
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Greek Religion

• Polytheistic
• Zeus
• Hades
• Poseidon
• Epic Poems-Trojan War, Iliad, Odyssey
• Mythology
• Medusa
• Hercules

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Greek Philosophers Socrates

• Question everything
• Socratic method like a teacher-student
  discussion, led by questioning
• Accused of corrupting youth

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Greek Philosophers Plato

• Pupil to Socrates
• The Republic
• Seeks to define
• Justice/Order
• Allegory of the Cave
• Correct form of government
• Rule by philosophers

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Greek Philosophers Aristotle

• Pupil of Plato
• Physics, metaphysics, theater, music, logic,
  politics, ethics, etc
• Teacher to Alexander the Great

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Alexander the Great

• Macedonian (city-state in North Greece)
• 356 323 BCE
• Conquers all of Greece, Persia, and invades India
• Hellenistic Culture blend of Greek, Persian,
  Indian, Egyptian