1. Greece

2.  Southern part of the Balkan Peninsula  Northeastern Mediterranean Sea  Aegean Sea to the East, Ionian Sea to the West  Long, uneven coastline  Sea played an important role in Greece  Mountainous, kept villages apart, couldn’t unite, allowed invaders from the North  Short rivers, unnavigable  Geography kept a large empire from forming, instead city-states develop Geography

3.  Minoans:  Lived on the island of Crete  Named after King Minos  Sailors and traders  Strong navies  In 1628 a tidal wave destroyed many settlements and Minoan civilization grew weak. Early Greeks

4.  Mycenaeans  Lived on Greek mainland  Conquered Minoans  Warring people  Built fort-like cities in the Peloponnesus  By 1200 BC earthquakes and war had destroyed most cities  Used linear B, a form of writing used by the Minoans, that served as an early form of Greek writing Early Greeks

5.  Polis is the Greek word for city-state  A polis developed around a fort (acropolis)  Made up of the fort, city and farming villages  Independent and self sufficient  Represented Greek identity  Small with a small population  Agora-marketplace, public meeting place  Each had on government and laws, calendar, money, and weights and measurements  All spoke same language and shared many religious and cultural charactersitics City-States

6.  Polytheistic  Did not emphasize personal morality  Greeks looked to religion for 3 things:  To explain nature  To explain emotions  Attain certain benefits  Not concerned with life after death  Used myths-stories about gods and goddesses  Zeus and Athena  Pleasing gods was important  Olympic Games Religion

7.  Using pages 111-112 and 115-117 complete the graphic organizer entitled Greece: The Birthplace of Democracy Government

8. Sparta & Athens- pgs 113-120

9.  Persian Wars  Battle of Marathon  Battle of Thermopylae  Platea  Delian League-Pericles  Peloponnesian War  Athens vs. Sparta Expansion of Greece

10.  Greek Art  Philosophers  Socrates  Plato  Aristotle Golden Age

11.  Son of Phillip II of Macedon  Student of Aristotle  Skilled military commander  Conquered Persia, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Mesopotamia  Becomes seriously ill and dies at 33 in 323 BC  Alexander purposely spread Greek culture wherever he went  The mixture of cultures from the Mediterranean and Asia become known as Hellenistic Culture Alexander the Great

12.  Hellenistic culture produced great achievements in the arts, sciences, philosophy, and religion.  Characterized by many new advancements in technology.  List 3 achievements from Hellenistic culture on your graphic organizer. Hellenistic Culture