Ancient Greece Yuhyuh

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Peninsula

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A body of land with water on three sides

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3

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Colonies

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Settlement in a new territory that has close ties to its homeland

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Homeland

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Polis

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What they called each city state

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City-State

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Acropolis

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Hill for shelter during attacks with temples built to honor gods

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Parthenon

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Agora

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In open area near the Acropolis served as a marketplace and meeting place

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Near acropolis

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Citizen

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Had the right to vote, hold office, own property, and defend themselves in court

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Election

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Tyrant

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Someone who seizes power and rules with complete authority

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Seizes power

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Oligarchy

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A few wealthy people hold power

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Sparta

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Democracy

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All citizens share in running government

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USA

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Helots

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Slaves

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Sla—-

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Persian Wars

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Greek colonies revolted against conquering Persians

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Athens sent warships to help, but lost

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Persia then invaded mainland Greece

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Greek city states banded together against Persians

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The Spartan army fought well on land, and the Athenian Navy destroyed most of the Persian fleets

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The Greeks defeated the Persian army but fighting continued in the colonies for about 30 more years

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Direct democracy

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All citizens meet to debate and vote on government officials elected yearly and were known as generals

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Philosopher

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Thinkers who reflect on the meaning of life

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Peloponnesian War

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Allies and Sparta went to war against allies and Athens

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The Spartan army surrounded Athens

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Pericles decided to keep Athenians inside the city walls

-athenian navy brought supplies to the city

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A large disease broke out in Athens, killing 1/3 of the people including Pericles

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Spartan Navy defeated the Athenian Navy, blocking supplies from entering Athens

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Starving Athenian were forced to surrender

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Peloponnesus war and continued fighting afterward weakened Greece

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Rituals

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Actions that are part of a religious ceremony

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Religion

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Fables

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Short tale that teaches a lesson

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Drama

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Stories told through words and actions of a cast of characters

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Hellenistic Era

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The time in which the Greek culture was spread to non-Greek areas

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Minoans

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The first civilization to develop in the Greece region

Lived on the island of Crete

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Mycenaeans

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Settled in mainland Greece

Kings lived in a palace on a hill surrounded by stone walls

Nobles owned large states where farmers and slaves worked

Mycenaeans learned from the Minoans, but eventually the Mycenaeans conquered them

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Peloponnesus

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Sparta was located on this peninsula in southern Greece

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Persia

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Largest empire in the world at the time

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Pericles

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Made Athens a center of learning and the arts he built new temples monuments and statues

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Homer

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Made popular epic stories called the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Socrates

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A famous Athenian philosopher who encourage students to question things and have debates

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Plato

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A student of Socrates who became a famous philosopher

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Macedonia

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Famous for having Philip II and Alexander the Great as there kings

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Philip II

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First major king of Macedonia

Conquered mainland Greece

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Alexander

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After Philip the second died he conquered the Persians, Egyptians, and part of India before he eventually died in Babylon at the age of 32

Known as Alexander the great

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Alexandria

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City in Egypt that Alexander the great named after himself. Famous for its two excellent harbors, a large lighthouse, a library, and being the largest city at the time in the Mediterranean region

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Geography of ancient Greece

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• Greek mainland is a mountainous peninsula

This results in many things:

-they had to farm on narrow fertile Plains along the coast and in between mountains

- because they didn’t have a lot of fertile land they traded goods and ideas between islands and along coastline increasing technology

-communities in Greece were separated by mountains in valleys this lead to each community being fiercely independent

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History of Athens and Sparta

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When the Persian war started Athens and Sparta joined together to fight off Persia

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Once the war was over Athens used its power to control the Delian league

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Other city states especially Sparta became concerned on their power

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Sparta became leader of a alliance against Athens

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This starts a war between Athens and its allies against Sparta and its allies

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Sparta eventually defeated Athens

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Ancient Greek religious beliefs

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•Ancient Greeks were polytheistic

-they believed the 12 most important gods and goddesses lived on Mount Olympus

-all Greeks worship Zeus as the chief God

-each city state chose one God or goddess as its protector and performed rituals to win their favor

-Temples were built to honor gods on the acropolis

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Contributions of ancient Greece to today’s society

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(Remember 5)

-Olympics

-Pythagorean Theorem

-History

-Marathon

-Democracy

-Drama

-Fables

-Philosophy

-Hypocratic Oath

-Wine

-Oligarchy