1. Ancient Greece
Chapter 5

2. City-state
Polis

3. Mediterranean and Aegean Sea

4. A major city and its surrounding countryside
Built on two levels
Polis

5. High city
Marble temples dedicated to gods and goddesses
Acropolis

6. The low flat ground was walled in, with markets and homes

7. Free residents
Share responsibility for the city
Citizens

8. Types of government evolve in Greece
Graphic organizer
Monarchy – Aristocracy – Oligarchy – Democracy
Types of government evolve in Greece

9. Massive tactical formation of heavily armed foot soldiers
Phalanx

10. Sparta and Athens Location? Education? Government? Men vs. Women
Economy
Sparta and Athens

11. Chap. 4 Athens Sparta WS
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12. 499 B.C.
Page 132 Map
Ionia
The Persian Wars

13. 480 B.C.
Xerxes
Thermopylae

14. Leonidas Spartan force against Xerxes Defeated, everybody died but one
Marathon
Leonidas

15. After Thermopylae Athens and the Salamis Straight
Last battle in Asia Minor
After Thermopylae

16. After the Persian War, the city-states began to gel together with Athens as the leader
Delian League
Athens moved the league’s treasury from Delos to Athens
Alliances!!

17. Alliances!! Many resented Athens
Sparta formed the Peloponnesian League
431 B.C. the Peloponnesian War broke out for 27 years
Alliances!!

18. Read how Sparta wins page 137
War

19. Macedonia North of Greece
Phillip II hired Aristotle to tutor his son Alexander
Phillip conquers Greece
Assassinated at his daughter’s wedding
Macedonia

20. Alexander the Great Takes Egypt Takes a weak Persia
Advances into India
Dies of fever and splits his kingdom into three
Alexander the Great

21. Legacy of Alexander Alexandria, Egypt
Hellenistic Age- period between Alexander and Rome where Greek ideas, art, economies, etc. peak
Women rulers – Cleopatra VII in Egypt
New ideas in Math, Astronomy, and Art
Alexander Worksheet on my website – use pages
Legacy of Alexander

22. Greek Legacy Philosophers – “lovers of wisdom”
Use logic – rational thinking
Greek Legacy

23. The art of skillful speaking
Rhetoric

24. The Greats Socrates to Plato to Aristotle
Ideas of government, wrote books, and started schools
The Greats

25. Iliad – Trojan War warriors
Odyssey – Sequel to the Iliad
Homer

26. Parthenon – a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena
Statues
Art and Architecture

27. Tragedies – plays that told stories of human suffering that usually ended in disaster
Comedies – humorous plays that mocked people or customs
Herodotus – “Father of History”
Greek Literature