1. GREECE!!!!
3000 BC – 300 BC

2. 1st Greeks
Minoans
Lived on the island of Crete

3. Geography 2 things that shaped Greece life Mts. and Seas
Mts. cover about 2/3 of Greece

4. Effects
Small City-States
Fiercely Independent

5. Climate
Great weather
Men activities - outside

6. Mycenaeans Indo-Europeans – settled mainland in 2000 BC
Contacted Minoans BC
Took over as main Greeks

7. Trojan War
1200 BC – 10 yr war between Mycenaeans and Trojans

8. Homer A Blind Poet Illiad and Odyssey
Oral traditions – written down after his death

9. Which one is real???

10. Arete (ar-uh-TAY)
Virtue and Excellence!!

11. Ancient Greece -Philosophers
“Lovers of Wisdom”

12. Two Main Ideas
The universe is put together in an orderly way – subject to absolute and unchanging laws

13. People can understand these laws through logic and reason

14. SOCRATES!!!

15. (cont.)
Wanted Greeks to question themselves and their moral character

16. (cont.)
“The unexamined life is not worth living”

17. (cont.)
Socrates asked people a series of leading questions to show that people hold many contradictory opinions.

18. Socratic Method Purpose:
The student comes either to the desired knowledge by answering the questions or to a deeper awareness of the limits of knowledge.

19. Plato Student of Socrates
Wrote The Republic – his vision of a perfectly governed society

20. The Republic
Leader – Philosopher/King
Three social classes

21. Aristotle Questioned the nature of the world.
Why does the world work the way it does?
Used logic
Doesn’t just say “B/c the Gods did it!”

22. (cont.)
Tutored Alexander the Great (Macedonia) in 343 BC

23. Golden Age of Greece (477 BC – 431 BC)

24. Pericles Leader during Golden Age in Athens
Increased paid public officials
Created direct democracy
Glorified Athens

25. Pericles / Delian League
Used money from D. L. to increase Athenian Navy
“ ” to beautify Athens
Athens – started bullying other poleis

26. Pericles
Had Parthenon Built

27. (cont.)
Peloponnesian city-states began resisting Athens

28. Drama and History 2 Types Comedy Tragedy a serious drama
One main character – hero
Hero - Extraordinary abilities
Hero had a tragic flaw

29. Herodotus 484 BC–c. 425 BC
1st Historian
Recorded the Persian Wars

30. Peloponnesian War War between Spartan and Athens
Sparta declares war in 431 BC
WHY???

31. (cont.) What type of war did Sparta want to fight??
What type did Athens want??

32. (cont.) Sparta – land battles – burned Athenian food supply
Pericles – gathered everyone behind Athenian wall

33. (cont.)
What happened when all these people were crammed behind a city wall with limited amounts of food? They couldn’t leave.

34. PLAGUE!!! 1/3 of Athenian population was killed
Signed a truce in 421 BC
LIARS!!!

35. Athens – LIARS! 415 BC – Attacked Sparta’s ally
Athenian military was completely destroyed
Athens lost everything – no longer a power

36. Alexander the Great
356 BC BC

37. His Father
Phillip II (359 BC)
Macedonian King

38. Phillip II Most Macedonians thought of themselves as Greeks
Greeks didn’t feel the same
Thought M’s were barbaric

39. (cont.) Phillip turned peasant class into trained professional army
Used phalanx
Set his eyes on Greece

40. Conquers Greece
Why was Phillip II able to conquer the Great civilization of Greece????

41. Overall Goal!!
PERSIA

42. Alexander Alexander takes over as king at age 20
Strict and organized leader
Ex. - Thebes

43. (cont.)
Goes after Persia in
334 BC

44. (cont.) Although outnumbered he defeats Darius III
Darius III tries to negotiate

45. NOT A CHANCE!!!
Alexander says he will conquer the entire Persian Empire…..and he eventually does

46. Marched into Egypt - welcomed as a pharaoh
Founded the city Alexandria (11 times)

48. Meets Darius again in Persia – wins
Persepolis (Persian capital) burns to the ground
Why?

49. Turn for the worst
After 11 years of fighting his troops want to turn back
On his way back Alexander dies