1. Warm-up Questions
Why was the emergence of philosophers significant to the understanding of life?
Where did Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato live?
Who invented a device to bring water up from a lower level to a higher one?

2. Key Terms & Map Test Chapter 9, Section 4 Ancient Civilizations
The Greek World
Key Terms & Map Test
Chapter 9, Section 4
Ancient Civilizations

3. Alabama Course of Study
Identify cultural contributions of Classical Greece, including politics, intellectual life, arts, literature, architecture, and science.

4. Alabama Course of Study
Describe the Role of Alexander the Great in the Hellenistic World.
Defining boundaries of Alexander the Great’s empire and its economic impact.
Identifying reasons for the separation of Alexander the Great’s empire into successor kingdoms.
Evaluating Major contributions of Hellenistic art, philosophy, science, and political thought.

5. Today’s Learning Targets
I can use academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I can locate key geographical features of Greek civilization on a map.
I can identify examples of Greek art, architecture, literature, science, and mathematics.

6. Warm-up Questions
Why was the emergence of philosophers significant to the understanding of life?
They were the first to look for reasons for things other than “The Gods did it.”
Where did Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato live?
Athens

7. Warm-up Questions
Who invented a device to bring water up from a lower level to a higher one?
Archimedes

8. Key Terms Review A unit of soldiers who ride horses.
cavalry
A prearranged method of executing a plan of action
strategy

9. Key Terms Review Rule by two kings.
diarchical monarchy
A series of wars between Greece and Persia.
Persian Wars

10. Key Terms Review Warriors who stood close together in a square.
phalanx
Greek-like
Hellenistic

11. Key Terms Review Clear or ordered thinking.
reason
A government in which the people rule themselves.
democracy

12. Key Terms Review An agreement to work together.
alliance
A war between Sparta and Athens.
Peloponnesian War

14. New Forms of Writing
Greek writers created many new forms of writing including drama and history.
The drama was used to put on plays.
They developed two different types of plays, the tragedy and the comedy.

15. New Forms of Writing
Thucydides was one of the greatest Greek historians. He wrote about he Peloponnesian War.
He examined the causes in an effort to help Greeks avoid similar mistakes in the future.

16. Today’s Learning Targets
I can use academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I can locate key geographical features of Greek civilization on a map.
I can identify examples of Greek art, architecture, literature, science, and mathematics.