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CHAPTER 4
GREECE:
MINOAN, MYCENAEAN, HELLENIC,
AND HELLENISTIC
CIVILIZATIONS,
2000-30 B.C.E.
Minoan and Mycenaean
Civilizations
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c. 2000-1200 B.C.E.
The Minoans
The Mycenaeans
Troy, site of Homer’s Illiad
The Fall of Mycenaean Civilization
The Rise of Hellenic
Civilization
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c. 1150-500 B.C.E.
The Influence of Geography
The Homeric Age
From Oligarchy to Tyranny
Athens to 500 B.C.E.
Sparta to 500 B.C.E.
Unity and Strife in the Hellenic
World
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500-336 B.C.E..
The Persian Wars
Culmination of Athenian Democracy
Athenian Society
Athenian Imperialism
The Peloponnesian War and Aftermath
The Macedonian Unification of Greece
The Greek Genius
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The Greek Character
Greek Religious Development
Early Greek Philosophy
Socrates, a Martyr to Truth
Plato and his Theory of Ideas
Aristotle, the Encyclopedic Philosopher
The Greek Genius
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Medicine
The Writing of History
Hellenic Poetry and Drama
Hellenic Architecture
Hellenic Sculpture and Pottery
The Hellenistic Age
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336-30 B.C.E.
Alexander the Great
The Division of Alexander’s Empire
Hellenistic Economy and Society
Hellenistic Philosophy
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Skeptics, Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics
Science and Mathematics
Hellenistic Art and Literature
The Hellenistic Contribution
YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND
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Minoan and Mycenaean cultures and
their influence on classical Greece.
Hellenic Greece—its political history and
its astonishing cultural achievements,
culminating in the classical age.
YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND
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How Greek culture was diffused and its
life extended during the Hellenistic era.