Do Now: Take the review quiz!!!! (Yes, it counts!!!!)

 You will view the film clip “The Geography and History of Greece”  Please list at least 1 similarity and 1 difference in Greece’s geography from the River Valley Civilizations of Egypt, The Fertile Crescent, China, or India

 Peninsula: a body of land surrounded by water on (3) sides  City-State: Independent communities that existed in Ancient Greece  Cultural Diffusion: the exchange of ideas through contact with other people  Climate: the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time

 In groups of (3)…  Each student will be responsible for reading their section to the rest of the group.  After reading, the group will answer the questions found on the reverse side of the page.  All students will complete the questions found on the worksheet

The Greeks were the first Europeans to develop their own civilization.

 (A) Ancient Greece consisted of a mountainous peninsula, the hilly coast of Asia Minor (Turkey) and many islands in the Aegean Sea.

B. Climate:  1. mild climate  2. most Greeks lived along the coastline C. Harbors:  1. many excellent harbors  2. Athens - came to depend on trade  3. olive oil and pottery

 through trade the Greeks learned  a) astronomy  b) mathematics  c) navigation  d) building techniques  e) borrowed the alphabet from the Phoenicians  f) coined money from Lydia

Greece's mountainous terrain made it difficult for the people to unite mountains = natural barriers  A. isolated communities developed into independent political units  called - city-states (Polis)  B. each city-state was different  1) own government  2) laws  3) army  C. most important city-states:  Athens and Sparta