1. Aim: Interaction between the “Center” and the “Periphery”
How did the Persian Wars create “Greek-ness”?

2. Persia and Greece

3. Phoenician Trade Routes and Colonies

4. Phoenician Cities

5. The Phoenicians City-states along Lebanese coast
Merchant and artisan culture
Create the modern alphabet, then copied by surrounding cultures – increased literacy
Willing vassals of Assyrians and Persians
Far more civilized than the Israelites or other local tribal peoples

6. The Early Greek World

8. Greek / Minoan Trade Routes

9. Greek Colonization

11. Why were they colonizing?

12. Why were they colonizing? What were the effects of colonization?

13. Why were they colonizing? What were the effects of colonization?
Migration due to population pressure; lack of available land
Neither is powerful enough to assert itself over long distances - the city-states do not rule their colonies
Less political cohesiveness; more tribal, more “democratic”
Trade, technological and cultural interaction predominates
Culture of the center (Persia) is further transmitted outward by the peripheries (Phoenicia and Greece)

14. “Western” Culture originates in Asia

15. Greek “Ionia” rebels from Persia; asks for aid from “mother” cities; Darius vows revenge

16. Persia (big) and Greece (little)

17. The “Persian Wars” Greeks unite in the “Delian League”
Greece is little, but far away
“The Three Hundred,” but most of the decisive battles are at sea
Fighting the Persians (the “other”) gives the Greeks a sense of “Greek-ness”