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Unit 6: Ancient Greece Notes
Geography & Climate
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What can you tell about the geography of Greece?
It has a lot of coastline and it very mountainous.
What kinds of landforms do you see?
Mountains, Valleys, Peninsula, Islands
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Based on the geography, what kinds of jobs do you think people had that
lived in Ancient Greece?
Shipbuilding, trade, fishing
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How is Greece different than other early civilizations that we have learned
about?
There is no major river valley!
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What continent is Greece on?
Europe
SUBSISTENCE FARMING is growing only enough for yourself and your family to eat.
Cash crops grown in Ancient Greece were: Olives, Grapes, Wheat & Barley
The First Civilizations
The first civilizations in the region where Greece is today were the Minoan and the
Mycenaean.
What kinds of jobs do you think they had?
Fishing, trading, shipbuilding, some farming
After these civilizations collapsed, and then the
region began to recover, what did people living there
do to get more food?
They traded with other areas and created
colonies in other areas.
What effect did this have?
The Greek culture spread to other areas.
The Rise of City-States
ARISTOCRACY: a landholding, elite group that ran the government.
Who could be a citizen in Ancient Greece? Native-born men that own land.
ACROPOLIS: the main gathering area in a city, usually on a hill.
AGORA: the area below the acropolis that was a marketplace where people could meet and debate
issues.
CITY-STATE
KEY FACTOR TO
RUNNING THEIR
CITY-STATE
LIFE FOR
BOYS/MEN
LIFE FOR
GIRLS/WOMEN
SPARTA
ATHENS
Military
Democracy
All Spartan boys left their families
and lived in barracks. At age 20, all
men entered the army, continuing to
live in military barracks for 10 more
years. They stayed in the army until
they were 60.
Athenian boys went to school and
were taught to read, write, do math,
play sports, sing and play
instruments. At age 18, they
became citizens.
Spartan girls were trained in sports,
making them healthy and fit. As
women, they lived at home (away from
their husbands living in barracks).
They had more freedom than other
Greek women and could own property.
Athenian girls stayed home and
were taught spinning, weaving and
other household duties. In some
wealthy families, they were taught
to read and write.
DIRECT DEMOCRACY: every citizen could vote on laws
VS.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: citizens choose a smaller group to decide on laws
Which of these do we use in the United States? Representative Democracy
ASSEMBLY: group meeting
How did Pericles improve life in Athens?
1. He paid office holders so that poorer citizens could have jobs in the
government.
2. Started many building projects of temples and statues
3. Supported artists, architects, scientists and philosophers
Who did the Greeks model their alphabet after? Phoenicians
How is this different than early writing that we have learned
about? It has letters that represent sounds, instead of pictures and
symbols to represent whole words.
Who won the Peloponnesian War? Sparta
What was one negative effect of this war?
It weakened all of the Greek city-states.
Would you consider Alexander the Great a hero or a villain? Explain your answer.
Your opinion!