Greece
The Minoans
The Minoan civilization was centered on
They wrote in a script called
The Minoan civilization was rediscovered
Colorful frescoes depicted
labyrinth
Minotaur
Theseus
The Mycenaeans
The Mycenaeans are the first
Civilization was centered in
Homer called these people
By 1400 B.C
Mycenaeans wrote in a script called
This writing was mostly used
Linear B was deciphered by
Heinrich Schlieman was
These graves were filled
The Iliad
Mycenaean Culture
The Mycenaeans were
By the fourteenth century
Collapse of the Mycenaean Civilization
One factor in the collapse
Dorian invasion
Greek ‘dark age’
Rebirth of Learning and Culture
Around 800 B.C.
The Phoenician Alphabet
Greek Literature
One of the most famous was
epic poems
The world portrayed in the epic poems
The Iliad
Helen
Menelaus
Paris
King Priam
After ten years
Key Characters of The Iliad
Achilles:
Agamemnon:
Odysseus:
Hector:
The Odyssey
Key Characters of The Odyssey
Penelope:
Telemachus:
Calypso:
Poseidon:
Greek Government
The Polis
Each polis had
The temple to the patron god of the city was
The polis was protected by
uniform
phalanx
The phalanx was vulnerable to
The most vulnerable parts of the soldier
Effective hoplite armies had
Reformers of Athenian and Greek Law
Law Reforms in Athens
Draco
His laws were
His laws were said to be “written in ______, not_____.”
Solon
He tried to be a
He promoted the idea of
He abolished
The Tyrants
Originally the word ‘tyrant’ meant
Pisistratus was the first
He stabilized
He ruled Athens from
After the death of Pisistratus, Hippias and Hipparchus
Harmodius and Aristogeiton.
Tyrants were never able to
Cleisthenes
“Isonomia”
Demes were responsible for
tritty
The Council
Classical Greece: Herodotus and the Persian Wars
The first historian
Scholars during the Victorian Era called him
The other great Greek
“scientific” historian meaning that
He believed that future generations
The First Persian War (492-490)
Darius
Marathon
The Athenian phalanx
The remaining Persian army
Phidippides
“Nike, Nike, Nike!”
The Greeks were able to
The Second Persian War (481-479B.C.)
In 481 B.C., Xerxes
His plan was
He decided to build a
The Persian Army numbering
Sparta called
Athens contributed
A Spartan army tried to hold the Persians at
The Spartans tactic was
The Spartans remaining
The other major battle
Themistocles
A slave who said that the Greek fleet
By afternoon
The Greeks then turned
The Persians lost
The Greeks lost
Impact of the Persian War on Greece
The Persian Wars helped the Greeks
Everyday Life in Classical Greece
90% of the Greek population were
The most widespread crop was
September to November was
May to June was
July to September
Sheep and goats
Slavery was widespread
Adolescent Spartans were allowed
Greeks considered it demeaning to
Sparta
Spartans idealized
Life of a Spartan male:
7 years old:
20 years old:
30 years old:
60 years old:
The most glorious thing to a Spartan
Spartan mothers
Families of those who had died
Spartan Women
Spartan Government
Sparta had two kings
The main governmental bodies in Sparta
The Assembly was composed of
The Council of Elders was made up
Results of Spartan Militarism
1.
2.
3.
4.
Athens
Symposia
Attendance at a symposium was
The boy was allowed to
Literacy and Education
Only a small minority
The art of memory was
Socrates claimed
This required the learner
The main subjects of Greek education were
Greek Religion
In the religion of ancient Greece, there was no
The Greeks generally did not believe
Greek Writers and Thinkers
Drama
Drama in Athens brought together
Drama festivals were held to
By the fifth century B.C. (400s) permanent
Actors wore
The theme of the dramas usually centered on
The father of drama was
Crimes against harmony included
Sophocles (496-406)
His tragedies focused on
He also introduced
Sophocles’ masterpiece is
It was prophesied that Oedipus would
Oedipus gets into an argument
Oedipus gouges
Euripides (484-406 B.C.)
Euripides’ plays show
The father of Greek comedy was
Sophists
Men who wandered from
Plato and Aristotle
Protagoras
Philosophers
The first great Greek philosopher was
His ideas were recorded by three other people:
Knowledge has to be
Socrates was charged with
Plato was
He felt that democracy was
Academy
The Republic
Aristotle was
He opened the
He was the first person to
The First Scientists
Pythagoras
He invented
He also believed
Hippocrates is known as
He believed that
He prescribed
Athenian Democracy
Citizens could belong to
The Assembly was responsible for
The Council of 500 administered
Members of this council were chosen
They believed that elections
Juries in Athens contained
Each year citizens could
Athenian democracy laid the
Greek Art and Architecture
Greek artists excelled in
The pots usually showed
The three types of Greek columns were
The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.)
Even after the Persian Wars ended
Persians
Sparta
Athens provided most of the
The league freed
Overseas trade
Athens began to dominate
Pericles
He used
He insisted
These policies changed
Several city-states
The War (431-404 B.C.)
Sparta’s fear and jealousy
In 430 B.C.
From 420-413 B.C. Athens tried
From 412-404 B.C.
Results of the War
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Greece Terms
Make sure you do the terms on a separate piece of paper. Make sure you Define and tell me why it’s important.
Hellespont-
The Illiad and The Odyssey-
Polis-
Pisistratus-
Cleisthenes-
Helots-
Peloponnesian War-
Delian League-
Socrates-
Socratic Method-
Parthenon-
Sophist-
Phidippides-
Ostracism-
Arthur Evans-
Heinrich Schlieman-
Dorians-
Homer-
Hoplite-
Phalanx-
Thucydides-
Herodotus-
Xerxes-
Sophocles-
The Republic-
Lyceum-
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