1. Rise of the Polis City-States in Ancient Greece

2. How has Greece influenced the modern world? Can you think of ways our modern world has been influenced by ancient Greece? Try to list at least two.

3. How has Greece influenced the modern world? Can you think of ways our modern world has been influenced by ancient Greece? Try to list at least two.

4. How has Greece influenced the modern world? Can you think of ways our modern world has been influenced by ancient Greece? Try to list at least two. Olympics: Held in Olympia every 4 years Mythology Architecture: Proportioned buildings with columns Government: early democracy; jury selection Geometry: calculation of pi (Archimedes) and the Pythagorean theorem Science: Eratosthenes=calculated the circumference of the earth and was off by less than 1% Aristarchus =theorized the earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around. Archimedes = Explained levers and pulleys making his famous quote "give me a lever long enough and I will move the Earth!"

5. Warm Up Describe the geography of Greece. Include in your answer: What continent is it in? What part of the continent? (north, south, east or west) Along what Sea? What geographic features can be found in Greece? What is the land itself like?

6. Crete & Mycenae

7. Mystery! After the Trojan War—in the early 1100s— civilization in Greece collapsed. This is called the Dark Ages. Poverty was everywhere. Major cities were abandoned. Trade for goods outside of Greece stopped. People were forced to rely on what they could raise themselves. Many people moved to the Greek islands. People stopped writing history down.

8. Dark Ages Families begin to settle in areas where the could have small farms These villages were near rocky, protected hills called an acropolis. Around 750BCE villages began to develop into a polis or city state. Temples were built on the acropolis At the foot of the acropolis was the agora, an open area used as a marketplace or gathering place.

9. Polis There were many city-states. Some of the biggest were: Athens Sparta Corinth Olympia Delphi

10. The Polis Ancient Greeks were very loyal to their city-state. Each city-state—or polis—had different types of government, goals, laws, customs. The city-states also had many things in common. They all believed in the same gods. They all spoke the same language.

11. How Different Were They? You and your shoulder partner will be given a fact sheet on Athens or Sparta. Make a T-chart Record positive things about living in that city state and negative things about life in that city state. Discuss details that you disagree on. See if you can identify what type of government exists in your city-state. We will contrast the two cities as a class.