2. 1. What ideas did the U.S. Founding Fathers take from the Athenian democracy to create our Government? 2. How did characteristics and contributions of Greek culture help to lay the foundation for Western civilization? 3. How did the rugged landscape of Ancient Greece contribute to the development of the polis? 4. What were the cultural, military, social, political, and economic characteristics of Ancient Greece? 5. How did the empire of Alexander the Great establish a basis for the spread of Hellenistic culture?

4. Mediterranean Sea Carpenters & metal workers Battering ram

6. Farmed & fished Household duties & attended sporting events Bull Leaping

7. Provide a list of occupations performed by the Minoans. What did most of the occupations have in common? Why would occupations related to the sea be plentiful in Minoan society?

10. Palace Knossos

25. Priest – kings Mother earth Fall of the Minoans Theseus & Minotaur Southern Russia Language, fashions & ship building

26. King Minos = ruler of Crete Minotaur = devourer Princess Ariadne = most beautiful woman (in her eyes) King of Athens Prince Theseus 7 Athenian boys & girls

29. The Mycenaean civilization developed and expanded throughout the Greek peninsula during the Bronze Age, and by 1650 B.C. was beginning to expand beyond it. But while the Minoans had become a commercial power, Mycenae became a military power. By the mid-15th century, Mycenae had conquered much of Crete and had seized Knossos. Mycenae flourished with the collapse of Minoan commerce.

30. Southern Russia Language, fashions & ship building

31. Troy Homer Illiad Odyssey Click for the story

36. Fact or fiction? You decide… Cause – Helen of Sparta Helen married Menelaus, brother of King Agamemnon Helens’ father – oath to support Menelaus Paris – prince of Troy Odysseus – King of Ithaca

40. Civil war Dorians Ionia