1. Rise of Ancient Greece

2. Roots of Greece Minoans Crete Established capital-Knossos
Sea trade; mariners
Buildings, plumbing, artwork;
influential women; “bull leaping”
Destroyed by volcano/invasion of
Mycenaeans

3. Minoan Art

4. Minoan Vase

5. Palace at Knossos

6. Mycenaeans Mycenae Continued Minoan traditions Trade; monarchy
Taxes on trade/farming
Declined (famine, drought, invasion)
Rule followed by a dark age (1100s)

7. Lion’s Gate at Mycenae

8. Tholos Tombs

9. Hellenic Age (750-336 B. C.) Continued Mycenaean traditions
Greek Religion
Gods, Goddesses; Mt. Olympus; Delphi;
rituals to honor gods (Olympics)
Iliad and Odyssey
Homer details Trojan War
Heroic deeds; recitations; music;
influenced Greek education; values

10. Greek Politics, Social Traits
Polis-Greek city-state
Made up of acropolis,
agora; gyms, public baths
Each polis surrounded by a wall
Acropolis-temples; middle of polis
Agora-market

11. Politics and Social Traits
Colonies-created for agricultural
production
Society-aristocrats, commoners,
farmers, slaves, soldiers, no political
or legal rights for women
Different city-states = different forms of government
Oligarchy
Democracy
Tyranny

12. Athens Attica Peninsula Goddess Athena 507 B. C.-constitution
Draco’s Code of Law (621 B. C.)
strict, harsh

13. Athens Solon (590s B. C.) Cancelled land debts; freed slaves
Promoted trade
Government Assembly-included everyone
Only wealthy could hold political office

14. Athens Peisistratus (541 B. C.) Tyranny
Land reform (land loans to poor)

15. Athens Cleisthenes (508 B. C.) Set up voting districts
Established 1st official Democracy

16. Athenian Democracy Requirements-over the age
of 20; male; completion of
military training
No slaves, women, children,
or immigrants
Jury duty
Direct Democracy

17. Athenian Democracy Three Bodies of Government Assembly-made laws
Council of 500-wrote laws
Courts-trials; sentencing
Practiced Ostracism

18. Athenian Education No girls (married at 14) Tutors; private school
Studied Iliad, Odyssey,
math, geometry, music
Age 7-18, rhetoric
Age 18, two years of military service

19. Sparta Located on Peloponnesus Relatives of the Dorians
Messenians-helots (slaves)
Military state
All time dedicated to preparing
for war

20. Sparta Strong military/war = order Majority of population were slaves
Practiced infanticide
Males required to join military

21. Sparta Military Life: Age 7-sent to military school
Age 20-Frontier service (hoplites)
Age 30-allowed to leave;
citizenship; marriage
Age 60-retirement

22. Sparta Women’s Social Status Athletic; healthy Could own property
No political life
Could marry at 19

23. Spartan Government
Led by two kings
Council of Elders
Oligarchy

24. Sparta Lagged behind culturally and economically
Frequently won the Olympics
Suspicious of change and outsiders

25. Greece’s Golden Age Classical Greece Greeks made advances in
Architecture
Painting
Sculpting
Philosophy
Literature

26. Greece’s Golden Age Architecture Parthenon
Marble, bronze, carvings, statues
Built theaters, public buildings

27. Greek Theater

28. Parthenon

29. Greece’s Golden Age Painting/Sculpting Statues; carvings; human
movement and form
Myron-Discus Thrower
Phidias-Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Praxiteles-Hermes Carrying Dionysius

30. Discus Thrower

31. Drama Tragedies and Comedies Aeschylus-Orestia Sophocles-Oedipus
Euripedes-Medea
Aristophanes

32. Philosophy Socrates Logic; deductive reasoning Socratic Method
Did not leave behind writings

33. Philosophy Plato Student of Socrates The Academy
The Republic-philosophers should rule government
Equal education
Ideal Form

34. Philosophy Aristotle Student of Plato More concerned with nature
Reason and logic
Politics-studied government; constitutional government is best
Contributed to science