1. Chapter 6 The Rise of Greek Civilization

2. Objectives
Understand how Greece’s geographic setting influenced the development of Greek civilization.
Examine early Greek history.
Examine the development of democracy in Greece.

3. Greece’s Geographic Setting

4. Peninsula - An area of land surrounded by water on three sides.
Greece’s Geographic Setting
Peninsula - An area of land surrounded by water on three sides.

5. Mountains are the major landforms in Greece.
Greece’s Geographic Setting
Mountains are the major landforms in Greece.

6. Greece’s Geographic Setting
Mountains are the major landforms in Greece.
Only about 1/5 of Greece is good for growing crops.

7. Greece’s Geographic Setting
Mountains are the major landforms in Greece.
Only about 1/5 of Greece is good for growing crops.
The ancient Greeks were all islanders.

8. A symbol of Freedom, Art & Democracy in the civilized world.
Greece’s Geographic Setting
Athens
A symbol of Freedom, Art & Democracy in the civilized world.

9. A symbol of Freedom, Art & Democracy in the civilized world.
Greece’s Geographic Setting
Athens
A symbol of Freedom, Art & Democracy in the civilized world.
Capital of Greece.

10. Greece’s Geographic Setting
Athens
A symbol of Freedom, Art & Democracy in the civilized world.
Capital of Greece.
Took its name from the goddess Athena.

11. Greece’s Geographic Setting
Sparta
Dates back to the Neolithic Period, at least 3,000 years before Christ.

12. Greece’s Geographic Setting
Sparta
Dates back to the Neolithic Period, at least 3,000 years before Christ.
Merely a group of five villages with simple houses and a few public buildings.

13. Greek Beginnings

14. We know the Minoans through their ruins.
Minoan Civilization
We know the Minoans through their ruins.

15. Minoan Civilization We know the Minoans through their ruins.
They spoke a language & wrote in a script we do not understand.

16. Minoan Civilization We know the Minoans through their ruins.
They spoke a language & wrote in a script we do not understand.
Crete was settled by the Minoans.

17. Minoan Civilization We know the Minoans through their ruins.
They spoke a language & wrote in a script we do not understand.
Crete was settled by the Minoans.
Eteo-Cretans were probably the original Minoans.

18. Bureaucratic Monarchies.
Minoan Civilization
Cretan states were
Bureaucratic Monarchies.

19. Bureaucratic Monarchies.
Minoan Civilization
Cretan states were
Bureaucratic Monarchies.
Operated their state as a business & made a great wealth from international trading.

20. Bureaucratic Monarchies.
Minoan Civilization
Cretan states were
Bureaucratic Monarchies.
Operated their state as a business & made a great wealth from international trading.
Had an advanced Navy.

21. Minoan Civilization Cretan society was the first “leisure” society.
Most popular sport: Boxing & Bull Jumping.

22. The Mycenaean Age dates during the Bronze Age.
Mycenaean Civilization
The Mycenaean Age dates during the Bronze Age.

23. Mycenaean Civilization
Mycenaean Civilization is dedicated to King Agamemnon who led the Greeks in the Trojan War.

24. Mycenaean Civilization
The palace found at Mycenae matches Homer's description of Agamemnon's residence from the Odyssey.

25. Mycenaean Civilization
The Mycenaean's were bold traders and maintained contact with other countries from the Mediterranean and Europe.

26. Mycenaean Civilization
The Mycenaean's were bold traders and maintained contact with other countries from the Mediterranean and Europe.
They were excellent engineers and built outstanding bridges, tombs, residences and palaces.

27. Mycenaean Civilization
Beehive Tombs

28. Mycenaean Civilization
Mycenaean Industry
Textile
Metal
Perfume
Pottery
Goldsmiths
Carvers

29. End of the Mycenaean Civilization Theory One: Population Movement
According to the first theory the Dorian’s launched a devastating attack, although this theory has been questioned because the Dorian's had always been present in Greece at that time. Alternatively, it could have been the 'Sea People' who attacked the Mycenaean's.

30. Theory Two: Societal Conflict
Mycenaean Civilization
Theory Two: Societal Conflict
A internal societal conflict between the rich and poor, with the lower classes becoming impoverished and rejecting the system under which they were governed.

31. The Trojan War
Greek myth tells the story of the Trojan War, a long struggle between Greece and the city of Troy on the west coast of Asia Minor, in present day Turkey.

32. Epic – A long story-telling poems.
The Trojan War
Iliad
Odyssey
Epic – A long story-telling poems.

33. Dark Ages of Greece

34. Acropolis – A high, rocky hill where early people built cities.
Dark Ages of Greece
Acropolis – A high, rocky hill where early people built cities.

35. City-States Develop
City-State – A city with its own traditions and its own form of government and separate independent state.

36. Aristocrat – A member of a rich and powerful family.
Aristocracy
Aristocrat – A member of a rich and powerful family.

37. Aristocrat – A member of a rich and powerful family.
Aristocracy
Aristocrat – A member of a rich and powerful family.
Tyrant - A ruler who takes power by force with the support of the middle and working class.

38. Democracy - A form of government in which citizens govern themselves.
Democracy in Greece
Democracy - A form of government in which citizens govern themselves.