1. Unit Five Block One Lecture Greek Philosophy
World History I
Unit Five Block One Lecture
Greek Philosophy

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3. Water, Water … everywhere!
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Straits of Dardanelles
Black Sea
Strait of Bosporus
Sea of Marmora
Ionian Sea
Aegean Sea
Mediterranean Sea

4. Where the land invades the water
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Macedonia
Balkan
Peninsula
Asia Minor
Peloponnesian
Peninsula
Crete

5. How does Greek civilization Spread?
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A - Started on Crete as Minoan civilization (3000 to 1100 BCE/BC)
B - Migrated to the Balkan Peninsula (Southeastern Europe) as Mycenaean civilization and spread to costal Asia Minor (1600 to 1000 BCE/BC)
C - Maintained during the Dorian (Dark) Ages (1100 to 700 BCE/BC), Archaic period (700 to 480 BCE/BC), and classical period (480 to 323 BCE/BC)
D - Spread into western Asia during the Hellenistic period (323 to 146 BCE/BC)
Ionian Sea

6. Major Greek City-states
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Macedonia (Macedon) (808 to 179 BCE/BC), homeland of Alexander the Great
Troy (3000 to 1250 BCE/CE), barbarians, destroyed at the end of the Trojan War
Athens (900 to present), think-tank and cradle of democracy for Greek civilization
Sparta (650 to 192 BCE/BC), founded by Dorian invaders, militaristic people

7. Important military Battles
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The Persian Wars!
(coming soon to a lecture near you)
Thermopylae Pass is where the Spartans fought the Persians using a phalanx tactic and eventually lost during the Second Persian War (480 BCE/BC)
The Plains of Marathon are where the Athenian Army beat the Persians in the First Persian War (490 BCE/BC)
Salamis island forms the strait in which the Athenian Navy destroyed the Persian Navy via a pincer tactic during the second Persian War (480 BCE/BC)