1. Warm Up – September 20
Grab the handouts from the front table and answer the following questions on a post it:
1. Describe the impact that the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars had on Greece
2. Who were the three main philosophers in Ancient Greece? Why do you think philosophy emerged following the Peloponnesian War?
3. Who was Aristotle’s most famous student?

2. Unit 3: Greece and Rome
The Fall of Greece and the Rise of Alexander the Great

3. Peloponnesian War Reading
On the same post it as the warm up answer the following questions while reading about the Peloponnesian War:
What were the three causes of the Peloponnesian War?
Why did other city-states dislike Athens?
What was the Peloponnesian League?
Which city-state had the better navy? Which city-state had the better army?
What was Sparta’s strategy to win the war?
What was Athen’s strategy to win the war?
What disaster struck Athens? How much of the population died?
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
How long did the war last?
What were some consequences of the war?

4. Alexander the Great Setting the Stage: Macedonia
Located north of Greece, Macedonia had a rough terrain and cold climate
People lived in mountain villages instead of city-states
Many Macedonians though of themselves as Greeks, however…
The Greeks looked down upon them as uncivilized foreigners

5. Philip II of Macedonia

6. Philip II Philip II of Macedonia
Philip II became king of Macedonia in 359 B.C. at age 23
Trained rugged peasants into a professional army which consisted of:
Phalanx (16 x 16 men)
Each soldier carried an 18 foot pike
Fast moving cavalry (soldiers on horseback)
Philip invades Greece, but not to destroy or enslave the Greeks

7. Philip II Battle of Chaeronea:
Athens & Thebes joined forces to fight Philip’s army
Philip’s army is too powerful and defeats the Greeks
Ends Greek independence; Philip controls Greece
Philip next sets out to defeat the mighty Persian Empire but won’t…
Philip stabbed to death in 336 B.C. at his daughter’s wedding

8. Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Background
Takes over at age 20 after the death of his father Philip II
Taught by Aristotle: learned science, geography & literature
Enjoyed Homer’s description of the heroic deeds of Achilles during the Trojan Wars
Killed 6,000 Thebans in a rebellion; cruelty frightened Greeks into accepting Alexander as their leader

9. Alexander the Great
How Alexander defeats the Persians
Philip wanted to conquer Persia, never had the chance
Alexander leads 35,000 troops into Anatolia (Turkey)
Met 40,000 Persians at Granicus River, Alexander’s army attacks first and is victorious
Darius III responds with army of 50,000-75,000
Macedonians break through weak point, Darius III flees
Result: Alexander has control of Anatolia

10. Alexander the Great Persia: Egypt
332 B.C. Alexander marches into Persian controlled Egypt
Welcomed by the Egyptians as a liberator, crowned pharaoh
Result: Alexander has control of Egypt

11. Alexander the Great Persia: Mesopotamia
Battle of Gaugamela: 250,000 Persians under Darius III
Alexander launched a massive phalanx attack followed by a cavalry charge and the Persian lines crumbled
Again Darius III flees in battle
Result: Alexander has control of all of the Persian Empire!!

12. Alexander’s Empire

13. Alexander the Great Other Conquests
Travels east to India- finds out Darius III was murdered
Soldiers exhausted- 11 years, 11,000 miles- turn back home

14. Alexander the Great
Alexander dies from illness at age of 32, very young

15. Alexander the Great Legacy Now what?
Empire broken into 3 main territories
Would last for centuries

16. Hellenism
Hellenism
Hellenistic Culture: blending of Egyptian, Persian, Greek and Indian influences
Would forever transform Greece and Asia

17. Hellenism Alexandria Center for trade 350 ft light house- first ever
Library with 250,000 scrolls; learning becomes a commodity

18. Hellenism Science and Technology
Euclid: book The Elements became basis for geometry
Archimedes: accurately estimated Pi (3.14)
Hero: used steam power

19. Alexander the Great
Result: Through Philip II’s and Alexander’s conquests of the Greeks, Egyptians, & Persians, ideas would spread and cultures would combine in a way that had never been seen before. After Alexander’s death, the Greek Civilization would gradually decline until many of their achievements and ideas would be absorbed into perhaps the greatest example of Hellenism in history: The Roman Empire.

20. TOD: September 20
Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up:
1. How did Greeks view Macedonians? Why were Phillip II and the Macedonians able to invade Greece?
2. What was Alexander the Great’s greatest skill? What lands was he able to conquer?
3. What is the legacy of Alexander The Great?