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Crete: Minoan Civilization (Palace at Knossos)
Minoans and Mycenaeans
Knossos: Minoan Civilization
The Mycenaean Civilization achers#p/u/2/CiQ4j-D5o4o
The Mask of Agamemnon Heinrich Schliemann
Phidias’ Acropolis
The Acropolis Today
ATHENS: Yesterday & Today
Geography – located in Attica, north of Peloponnesus. Aristocracy – Noble landowners held power and chose the chief officials. Discontent grew – merchants and soldiers resented the power of the nobles. Farmers were in debt. As discontent grew, Athens moved toward a Democracy, or government by the people.
Athenian tyrant who seized power in 546 BC. Gave farmers loans and land taken from nobles New building projects gave jobs to the poor By giving poor citizens a greater voice, hw further weekend the aristocracy
Homer: The “Heroic Age”
Early Athenian Lawgivers Draco “draconian” Solon Cleisthenes created the first democracy!
SPARTA
Location – Spartans were Dorians who conquered Laconia. This region lies in the Peloponnesus, the southern part of Greece. Government – 2 kings and a council of elders who advised the monarchs. An assembly made up of all citizens approved major decisions. Citizens were native born Spartan males over the age of 30. The assembly also elected 5 ephors, officials who held the real power and ran day-to-day affairs.
SPARTA Helots Messenians enslaved by the Spartans.
The Agora
The Parthenon
Great Athenian Philosophers Socrates Know thyself! question everything only the pursuit of goodness brings happiness. Plato The Academy The world of the FORMS The Republic philosopher-king GsS0E&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Great Athenian Philosophers Aristotle The Lyceum “Golden Mean” [everything in moderation]. Logic. Scientific method.
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Boys attended school if their families could afford it. Studied public speaking so they could voice their views. Athens encouraged young men to explore many areas of knowledge
Training – From childhood a Spartan prepared to be part of a military state. Every sickly child was abandoned to die. At the age of seven, boys began training for a lifetime in the military. Hard training and dieting for life to become excellent soldiers. Think 300
Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE
Persian Wars: Famous Battles $ Marathon (490 BCE) 26 miles from Athens $ Thermopylae (480 BCE) 300 Spartans at the Mountain pass $ Salamis (480 BCE) Athenian navy victorious $ Battle of Plataea ° Spartans defeat Xerxes and the remaining Persians
Persian Wars 1:00 to 9:00 Minutes
Speed Power to ram Persian ships 203 men crew The more oars the stronger and faster the ship
After the Persian Wars, Athens set up the Delian League, an alliance with other Greek city-states Athens used its power in the league to slowly form the Athenian Empire, forcing other city-states to remain with the league
Peloponnesian Wars
Sparta defeated Athens Ended Athenian domination Democracy suffered War continued for years Sparta fell As Greeks battled among themselves a new power rose in Macedonia, a kingdom to the north Start 11:14 - end
Golden “Age of Pericles”: 460 BCE – 429 BCE Start – 12:00 - end ?v=qGYqbsgv4AA&feature=rel ated Beginning – ?v=AbIZDS2lId4&feature=relat ed
Olympia
The Ancient Olympics: Athletes & Trainers
The 2004 Olympics
Olympia: Temple to Hera
The 2008 Olympics
Athens: The Arts & Sciences DRAMA (tragedians): Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides THE SCIENCES: Pythagoras Hippocrates “Father of Medicine”
The Geography of Greece
Geographical Characteristic # 1 – Seas, used as a link to the outside world. Greece is part of the Balkan Peninsula Geographical Characteristic # 2 – Mountainous region, which causes Greece and its city-states to be more isolated from one another and serves as barriers for protection. Greece fiercely defended the independence of their city-states. Endless rivalry led to frequent wars.