1. Agenda: Ancient Greece
Objective: Students will learn about the geography of Ancient Greece and how it impacted their culture
Warmup: Kahoot
Complete notes from “Geography” through “Greek Mythology”
Videos one through four with questions (skip video three)
Video response padlet
Targets: Geography of Greece
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2. Warm-up 1
Land surrounded on three sides by water is called a/an island or peninsula?
What sea separates Greece from Egypt (see map)?
Another name for Anatolia (Turkey today) is Asia Minor or Italy?
Aegean
4. Greece had a polytheistic religion which means they believed in many gods or one god?
The chief Greek god is Apollo or Zeus?
In Greece, each city had it’s own government. We call these
city-states or empires?

3. Ancient Greece I
2000 BCE to 449 BCE

4. Geography
Ancient Greece was located on the Balkan and Peloponnesus Peninsulas (in Europe) and on the coast of Asia Minor (Anatolia)

5. It was surrounded by the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas
Balkan Peninsula
Asia Minor
Aegean
Sea
Peloponnesus
Mediterranean Sea

6. City- States
Mountainous terrain and islands led to the formation of independent city-states (instead of a united empire)
City states had independent governments but shared the same language, religion and culture.

7. Polis- city and its surrounding countryside
Acropolis – high city with temples to the gods

8. Rebuilt Greek Marketplace (Agora)
Greek cities were centers of trade and politics
Rebuilt Greek Marketplace (Agora)

9. Greek Trade
Greece was dependent on trade because it had limited arable (farmable) land
Greece became prosperous because of what? Why was Greece dependent on trade?

10. Trade spread Hellenic (Greek) culture
Greeks set up colonies around the Mediterranean due to overpopulation and the search for arable (farmable) land.
Trade spread Hellenic (Greek) culture
Why did Greece set up colonies?

11. Increased trade led to a switch from barter to a money economy
What did increased trade lead to?

12. Fought over control over control of trade through the Dardanelles
Trojan War
Fought over control over control of trade through the Dardanelles

13. Dardanelles: a strait linking the Mediterranean (Aegean) and Black Seas
Troy

14. Homer Blind poet who composed the epics The Illiad and The Odyssey
Epics: story-poems that tell of heroic deeds (passed down orally)

15. The Illiad
Tells of Trojan War and the warriors Achilles of Greece and Hector of Troy

16. Tells of Odysseus’ adventures on his ten year journey home from Troy
The Odyssey
Tells of Odysseus’ adventures on his ten year journey home from Troy
Odysseus and the sirens
Odysseus meets the sirens

17. Greek Mythology Polytheistic Religion
Explained natural phenomena, life events and human qualities

18. Greek gods and goddesses
Serve as symbols in and images in Western literature, art, and architecture.

19. Zeus and Hera chief god god of thunder wife of Zeus
goddess of marriage

20. Apollo and Artemis Twins god of the sun, light, logic, and music
goddess of the moon, and hunting

21. goddess of war and wisdom
Athena and Aphrodite
goddess of war and wisdom
goddess of love