1. AP World Review: Video #6: Greece and Persia (Key Concepts 2
AP World Review: Video #6: Greece and Persia (Key Concepts 2.2, II, E-F, 2.2, I, A, 2.2, II, A-B, 2.2, III, A-c)
Everything You Need to Know About Greece And Persia To Succeed In AP World

2. Greek Geography Irregular coastline = trade and seafaring
Mountains and islands separated Greeks -> led to city-states (poleis)
City as an independent state

3. Greek City-States Patriarchy society Citizenship = free males Sparta:
Focus on military
Boys taken at age 7 to train
Women had more freedom than other Greeks
Received an education, could own property
Government was ruled by kings and an oligarchy

4. Greek City-States Athens:
Significant political and intellectual contributions
Originally ruled by tyrants
Democracy in 500s B.C.E.
Direct democracy
All citizens vote
Pericles
Leader during the Golden Age ( B.C.E.)
Built the Parthenon
Women could not own property, could not vote, no education
Protective City walls

5. Socrates, Plato, And Aristotle (SPA)
Socratic Method
Put to death for challenging state religion
Plato:
Student of Socrates
Established the Academy
The Republic - focus on justice and ethical values
Influential in politics
Aristotle:
Student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great
Focused on empiricism:
Knowledge comes from observation and evidence using senses

6. Greek Religion Zeus and other gods
Contact with other regions allowed religion to become syncretic
Combined ideas from other cultures
Religion and literature were closely linked:
Attending religious functions was seen as part of civic duty
Plays focused on Gods

7. Greek Architecture And Art
Greek myth carvings in Parthenon
Olympics:
Every 4 years, fighting would stop
Lasted 1000 years

8. Greek Colonies City-states set up colonies in the Mediterranean
Colonies had a fair amount of autonomy, or independence

9. Persian Empire Cyrus The Great (559 - 539 B.C.E.)
Achaemenid Empire (1st Persian Empire)
United areas of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and India
Diverse Empire
Darius ( B.C.E.)
Empire was divided into provinces
Satraps - rulers of provinces
Taxes paid for government bureaucracy
Persepolis in Iran
Royal Road - 1,500 - increased trade
Common currency

10. Persian Empire Persia was tolerant Must pay taxes and provide soldiers
No religious uniformity
Spread Zoroastrianism - heaven and hell
Patriarchy - women could own property
With large bureaucratic government, new occupations emerged
Accountants, tax collectors, translators
Slaves worked on farms, servants in cities

11. Persian Wars Greece and Persia clashed over land in Asia Minor
Marathon - Athens defeated Persia
Battle of Thermopylae
300!
Persia captured Athens later
Persia was eventually defeated by Athens at sea

12. Persian Empires Parthian: Present-day Iraq and Iran
Capital at Ctesiphon
Used satraps
Defeated by the Sassanids in 224 C.E.
Sassanids:
Helped spread Zoroastrianism
Persecuted Christians

13. Comparing Greece And Persia
Similarities
Large territories
Women had few rights
Trade with other regions
Cultural diffusion
Differences
Religion:
Persia = monotheistic and Zoroastrianism
Greece = many gods
Persia was tolerant of other customs and traditions
Greeks were united through similar culture, language, etc.
City-states were NOT politically united

14. Quick Recap Greek City-States Compare Athens and Sparta
Rights of women in Greece
Contributions of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (SPA)
Greek Religion
Persian Empire
Religion, rights for women
Persian Wars
Comparing Persia and Greece

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