2. Mountains & Seas (especially the Aegean Sea) helped shape the history of Greece  They sailed on the seas to far off places to establish colonies.  The mountains kept people apart so that each city-state had its own ruler, laws, & money.

3.  The rocky soil made farming hard. They couldn’t grow much food.  They raised sheep, goats, pigs, & cattle.They grew grain, grapes, & olives.

5. Peloponnesus Mediterranean Sea Aegean Sea Ionian Sea

6. The Greeks gave us  Democracy (rule by the people)  An alphabet borrowed from the Phoenicians  architecture  Olympics  mythology  literature

7. Parthenon Agora Columns

8.  Every free Adult Male over 20 was a citizen in Athens.  Women did not participate in government.  All decisions were made by majority rule. Athens became the world’s 1st Democracy because they believed people should rule themselves.

9.  The Olympic Games began in 776 BC.  The Olympic Games brought together the city-states in one place. Things all Greeks had in Common  All the Greeks believed that Zeus & their other gods controlled daily events in the world.  They met every four years to honor Zeus.  All the city-states shared a common written language.

10. Greek amphitheatres, such as this one in Delphi, were designed so that even a whisper could reach the seats farthest from the stage.