1. Hellenistic Greece

2. Warm Up What characteristics make a good leader?
Who is your favorite teacher?
Does this teacher exhibit “good leader” characteristics?
*In the following presentation, you only need to write what's written in RED.

3. Horrible Histories
As you watch the video, find out how old is Alexander?

5. How would the geography have influenced Macedonian trade?
What major empire would have influenced Macedonian culture?

6. Alexander’s Empire on the year of his death

7. What does mean to be Hellenistic?
Hellenistic - The blending of Greek cultures with those of Persia, Egypt, and Central Asia following the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Question to Consider: What is an empire? Give the definition and explain how Alexander the Greats’ conquests apply.

8. Blending Cultures
Best way to encourage cultural exchange is through marriage.
Alexander married Roxana of Bactria and Stateira of Persia.
He also did this to legitimize his claims to the Persian Empire.
Roxana bore Alexander a posthumous son (child born after the death of a parent). She named the child Alexander IV; unfortunately, he never reaches adulthood because he was murdered in a political plot.

9. Painting of Alexander and Roxane’s wedding
Why would intermarriage be important? Explain a motivation for Alexander to encourage intermarriage.

10. Blending Cultures Cont…
Another great way to gain cultural exchange is through trade and education.
When Egypt built the city of Alexandria the most important achievement was the Library of Alexandria, which contained information on:
Philosophy
Literature
History
Science
Medicine

11. Life in the Hellenistic World
What was the most significant change in Hellenistic society?
Recall: the main political unit of Greece was the city-state.
After Alexander conquers much of the known world the political unit switches to kingdoms.

12. Hellenistic Achievements
Philosophy
Cynicism- rejected the ideas of pleasure, wealth, and social responsibility. Instead, they should live according to nature. Withdrew from society.
Many gave away possessions and became vagrants or wanderers. They were like homeless people in today’s society.
Epicureans- sought out pleasure, developed close friendships with those that shared similar beliefs
Pleasure- Good
Pain- Bad or Evil
Stoicism- placed emphasis on reason, self-discipline, emotional control, and personal morality.

13. Hellenistic Achievements cont…
Art and Literature
Art pieces conveyed emotion and movement.
Nike of Samothrace was carved in a flowing style.
Literature focuses on everyday lives.

14. Hellenistic Achievements cont…
Write down five things you see in the picture.
Compare to your elbow buddy.

15. Story time! I need four volunteers

16. Oedipus Rex By Sophocles
The blind seer Teiresias tells the disbelieving king that he, Oedipus, is the murderer, and adds that Oedipus is living incestuously.
Unimpressed, Queen Jocasta says an oracle said her husband, the old king, would be killed by their child, but that never happened since they abandoned the baby and her husband was killed by robbers at a crossroads.
Oedipus begins to suspect that he was the abandoned baby; he killed a man on the road to Thebes, where he met and married Jocasta to become king.
A messenger and a servant confirm the tale, and Jocasta hangs herself. Oedipus discovers her body and uses the pins of her brooches to stab out his own eyes.
*Summarize the story in your notes

17. Hellenistic Achievements cont…
Science and Technology
Euclid “Father of Geometry”
Formulated many of the ideas about geometry that we still use today.
Eratosthenes
Calculated the size of the Earth
Archimedes
Great Inventor: compound pulley & Mechanical screw for drawing water

18. Who is the Father of Geometry?
Aristotle
Mozart
Euclid
Erastothenes
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19. This person is a great inventor.
Sophocles
Vivaldi
Euclid
Archimedes
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20. I am Poem
Complete the I am Poem using information from your notes or in the book (look it up in the Index!)

21. More Horrible Histories Exit Ticket
Word association of Greece on a sticky note