Ancient Greece

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Peloponnesus

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the southern peninsula of Greece

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Isthmus

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a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas

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Phoenician

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Middle Eastern people who traded around the Mediterranean Sea for hundreds of years

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alphabet

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a set of symbols that represent the sounds of a language. Greeks took the alphabet from the Phoenicians and adapted it.

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Mountains covered

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70 to 80 percent of Greece. They made it difficult to travel, to farm, and to unite Greece under one government.

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Anatolia

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A Greek colony which had flat lands and rivers that were good for farming.

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Mycenean Civilization

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The FIRST Greek civilization was built on the Peloponnesus. King ruled each city. They were sea faring traders. The culture featured writing, gold jewelry, bronze weapons, fine pottery.

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aristocracy

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a government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility

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oligarchy

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form of government in which a few people have the power

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agora

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the marketplace in ancient Greece

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Greek food

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fish from the sea, grew grapes & olives, raised goats

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Used seas

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as a highway for trade & travel

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Greece

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not much good farmland

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Greece economy built

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on farming and sea trade

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Greeks

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learned to use coins from other trading people

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Greek alphabet

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taken from the Phoenicians and adapted it to their language

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Different city-states

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had different forms of government including monarchy, rule by aristocrats and oligarchy

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Classical Greece developed

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the basis for Western philosophy

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Classical Greece established

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rules for the writing of history

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Classical Greece set out

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rules of logic

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Greece Arts

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created drama, used the ideal for the basis of arts, set artistic standards for art and architecture

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Greece Science and Technology

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made important discoveries about Earth and the planets, devised new mathmatics, developed inventions such as the compound pulley and water-lifting devices

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GreekGovernment

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Created and used direct democracy, expanded citizen participation in government

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Alexander

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built an enormous empire including land in Asia, Africa and Europe

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Polis

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greek city-state, such as Athens or Sparta

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acropolis

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a fortified high place in an ancient Greek city, which contained important temples, monuments and buildings

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Parthenon

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a temple of the Greece goddess Athena built in the fifth century BC on the acropolis of Athens

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Pericles

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a leader of ancienrt Athens who set out to strengthen democracy and expand the Athenian empire

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Delian League

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an alliance of Greek city-states formed at the end of the Persian War to protect Athens and its oversees allies

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Phillip of Macedon

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organized a well trained professional army and became ruler of the Greek city-states as a dictator

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Alexander the Great

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a king of Macdonia who conquered parts of Asia & Egypt, spreading Greek culture throughout his Empire

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Helenistic culture

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relating to the blend of Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian cultures that lasted from the death of Alexander the Great until Cleopatra's death