Leader: Amber Keller Adventurous

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Adventurous Athens

• Leader Amber Keller Adventurous
• Members Leslie Santos, Tony Garcia, Alex
  Marcelo, and Jesse Chen

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The Acient Greek City-State of Athens

• Athens went to war with Sparta in 431 BCE
• Athens is the largest city of Greece, apart from
  being one of the oldest cities of the world
• Athens is the capital of Greece
• Athens is the birthplace of Democracy
• Athens is one of the worlds main
• centre of archaeological research
• In 426BCE the construction of
• the Parthenon began
• In 430-428 BCE a plague wiped out
• ¼ of Athens population including Pericles

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Alexander the Great (Greek Ruler)

• Alexander the Great was born in 356 BCE in Pella
• When Alexander was 13 he became the pupil of
  Aristotle
• When Alexander went to war a rumor was spread
  that he was dead
• In 333 BCE, Alexander became seriously ill but
  recovered and continued to fight into Syria
• When Alexander entered Babylon he was diagnosed
  with Malaria
• Alexander died on
• June 13, 323 BCE
• His body was placed in a solid
• gold coffin!!

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Government Official

• Athens were the first to introduce Democracy to
  the ancient Greek world
• Only men were allowed to vote
• Most of the time if you were a citizen you got to
  chose if you wanted to go to the army or not
• The assembly made sure that
• everyone followed the laws
• During meetings men were allowed
• to speak up and had the rights to speak
• their opinion

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Member of the Military (General)

• Athenian soldiers were required to serve two
  years in the military
• After the first year they were given a sword and
  a shield with state emblem on it
• Most wars between city-states were due to
  problems concerning harvest or livestock,
  sometimes over power
• In 448-447 Athens and Sparta fought a war called
  Peloponnesian war
• Of course, Woman were not allowed in the army

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Merchant (Ships)

• Athens cargo ships used sails and oars to get
  where they were going
• Cargo ships often carried wine, wheat, olive oil,
  perfume and metal objects
• 58 of men became sailors on cargo ships
• Even when they were only traveling to another
  city they went by boat because of the rocky hills
• Most cargo ships weight 150 tons
• Almost all cargo ships were made of wood

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Average Person (Farmer)

• Farming in ancient Greece was difficult due to
  the limited amount of good soil and cropland.
• One record showed a farmer making 30,000 drachmas
  in a year off his large farm.
• Farmer grew enough food to support their families
  and at times they grew a small surplus to sell at
  the local markets
• Most farmer were small with four or five acres of
  land
• They made the barley into porridge or ground if
  in to flour used for wine production

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Group Slide

• We created democracy and were the people of
  Pericles!
• In 426 BCE we built Acropolis and were the
  largest city in Greece
• Athens ooh ooh its Athens
• We went to war with Sparta in 431 BCE, did we
  mention were the capital of Greece?!?!
• Weve might have been beaten, but were still
  walkin!
• Athens ooh ooh its Athens!!

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Our Performance