1. Ancient Greece Minoan Civilization Early ancestors of the Greeks
Mycenaen Civ.
Early ancestors of the Greeks
Palace named Knossos was the center of the civ,
1st Greek Speaking People
Invaded and over took the Minoan Civ.
Great Sea Traders
Ancient Greece

2. Trojan War 1250 B.C. Over love of a prince or land?
10 year war – ending with the Greeks burning Troy to the ground
Fable or Fact?
Heinrich Schliemann and his excavation

3. Minoans – Mycenae - Dorians
Mycenae Civ crumbled after Trojan War
Dorians from the north invaded
Greek Civilization declines from BC
IIiad and the Odyssey – Homer
What remains to tell the story of this time period.

4. Greece’s Geography

5. Map Work Mt. Olympus Crete Pindus Mtns Asia Minor Sparta Axios River
Athens
Olympia
Delphi
Aegean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Peneus River
Corinth

6. Geography “We live around the sea like frogs around a pond.”
Peninsula – surrounded by water
Mountains - protect and isolate
Small city-states who protected independence
Seas a link to the world – trade and cultural diffusion
Out growing its land – oversea
colonies

7. Early Greek City States
Acropolis
Polis
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
Phalanx

8. Sparta vs. Athens Southern Greece Brutal Government Focus on military
Little education
Isolated itself from the rest of Greece
Very little growth

9. Athens North of Sparta Became an aristocracy Unrest led to a democracy
Solon Reforms
Freed debtors
Opened more offices
Legislature
Limited Democracy
Women in the homes
Education above all else

10. Victory and Defeat in the Greek World
Greeks unite against a common enemy
499 B.C. Greeks rebel
Small Greek Army made the Persians run (Marathon Victory)
Greeks get a navy and help from each other
GREEKS VICTORIOUS!!!!
Results: Athens most powerful city state; Delian League forms (alliance)

11. Peloponnesian War Sparta doesn’t like the Athenian Delian League
Forms the Peloponnesian League
431BC Sparta and Athens fight
Delian vs. Peloponnesian
Sparta gets help from the Persians and defeats the Athenians
Athens remains cultural not political center of Greece