1. AGE OF GREEK AND PERSIAN POWER Key Concept 2.3

2. What is the Indo-Mediterranean region and what factors led to its integration? The Indo-Mediterranean region is a single zone of human interaction that ran from the Bay of Bengal to the Strait of Gibraltar. From 600 to 200 BCE, the societies within this region had many commercial and cultural links which grew more complex as they expanded by 200 BCE

3. MAP EXERCISE

4. LOCATE THE GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES Land features: Anatolian Peninsula, the Iberian Peninsula Regions: Indo-Mediterranea, the Levant, Macedonia, Syria, Bactria Cities: Athens, Alexandria, Sardis, Susa, Babylon, Jerusalem, Antioch, Pataliputra Rivers: the Ganges, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Nile, the Indus, the Amu Darya Bodies of water: the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea, the Black Sea, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf Mountains: the Hindu Kush, the Khyber Pass

5. HISTORICAL CONTEXT Geography Great Arid Zone History Major center of civilization Empires rose and fell Assyrian the largest and most powerful but collapsed and fragmented Persian empire Empire of Alexander the Great Maurya empire in India Greek kingdoms (Seleucid, Ptolemaic, and Antigonid) Eventually Roman empire

6. ACTIVITY Review: Write your definition of empire and stick it to the Port. Divide the class into six groups. Each group with have a different empire. Each student in the group will have a separate sheet of paper in their notebooks for each empire with the following categories written across the page ‘landscape’ style: As each member takes a turn reading a different section of the handout, the other group members are to take notes in the appropriate columns You will have 7 minutes at each empire ‘station’

7. HOMEWORK: Label Eastern Hemisphere map (due Tuesday) On a separate sheet of paper that will be turned in at the beginning of class Wednesday, write a response of AT LEAST 10 sentences in length to EACH of the three questions: Is there any common thread in the founding of these empires? If so, what are they? How did the rules of the empires vary? What part, if any, did religion play in the rule of empires?