1. Ancient Greece

2. Early early Greeks Traders, sailors Trojan War
Troy (Turkey) kidnapped Helen the wife of the Greek King
Greece took siege on Troy
Trojan Horse

3. Early Early Greek Homer Blind Poet Wrote Iliad Wrote Odyssey
Story of Trojan war
Achilles
Wrote Odyssey
Story of journey back from the Trojan war
Sirens, Cyclopes

4. Ancient Greece Philosophers Socrates Plato Aristotle
Question everything
Plato
Ideal Society
Government controls everything
Aristotle
Golden mean—avoid extremes

5. Ancient Greece Focused on Arts Focused on literature Greek Mythology
Tragedies and comedies
Greek Mythology
Olympics

6. Ancient Greece City-States Phalanx
Cities acted as if they were countries
Phalanx
Side by side fighting style

7. Athens Democracy Focused on arts Limited Rights Education
Had slavery, only male citizens could vote
Women were seen as homemakers
Education
Focused on public speaking

8. Sparta 2 kings, and council of elders Women Education
Rarely saw husbands
Were suppose to keep in shape
Education
Boys taken at age 7 to live in barracks in the military
Beaten, encouraged to steal, forced to kill, whipped…tough military training
Could marry at age 20, but had to keep living in military barracks until 30
“Come back with your shield or on it”

9. Persian War (setting the stage)
Greeks had earlier helped a rebellion against King Darius of Persia
Battle of Marathon
Greeks won an overwhelming match
one man ran from Marathon to Athens (26 miles) to tell the news and died as soon as he arrived in Athens

10. Persian War
Persians (Xerxes) made a second attempt by land and water

11. Persian War Battle of Thermopylae
300 Spartans and thousands of other Greeks blocked the path on land (all died)
Persians burned down Athens, but the people retreated to the mountains

12. Persian War
The Athenian navy beat the Persians and later the Greeks won on land
Greek city-states united together
Trireme

13. Alexander the Great Son of King Phillip II Tutored by Aristotle
Phillip II was assassinated at his daughters wedding, Alexander’s mom had Alexander made king

14. Alexander the Great Conquered the Persian Empire
Never lost a single battle
Conquered all the way to India, when his army got tired and miss their families

15. Alexander the Great Built Alexandria (Egypt) Women Rights
Library of Alexandria
Pharos
Women Rights
Spread the Greek culture (Hellenistic)
Heliocentric theory
Pythagoras Theory (a2+b2=c2)
Geometry, Hippocratic oath, Archimedes

16. Alexander the Great Died at age 32
Sudden fever no one knows for sure what killed him
Empire fell apart after his death