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Crete: Minoan Civilization
(Palace at Knossos)
Minoans and Mycenaeans
Knossos: Minoan Civilization
The Mycenaean Civilization
http://www.youtube.com/user/historyte
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The Mask of Agamemnon
Heinrich Schliemann
Phidias’ Acropolis
The Acropolis Today
ATHENS: Yesterday & Today
 Geography – located in Attica, north of
Peloponnesus.
 Aristocracy – Noble landowners held power
and chose the chief officials.
 Discontent grew – merchants and soldiers
resented the power of the nobles. Farmers
were in debt.
 As discontent grew, Athens moved toward a
Democracy, or government by the people.
 Athenian tyrant who seized power in
546 BC.
 Gave farmers loans and land taken
from nobles
 New building projects gave jobs to the
poor
 By giving poor citizens a greater voice,
hw further weekend the aristocracy
Homer: The “Heroic Age”
Early Athenian Lawgivers
$ Draco
 “draconian”
$ Solon
$ Cleisthenes
 created the first
democracy!
SPARTA
 Location – Spartans were Dorians who
conquered Laconia. This region lies in the
Peloponnesus, the southern part of
Greece.
 Government – 2 kings and a council of
elders who advised the monarchs.
 An assembly made up of all citizens
approved major decisions. Citizens were
native born Spartan males over the age of
30. The assembly also elected 5 ephors,
officials who held the real power and ran
day-to-day affairs.
SPARTA
Helots  Messenians enslaved by the
Spartans.
The Agora
The Parthenon
Great Athenian Philosophers
$
Socrates
 Know thyself!
 question everything
 only the pursuit of goodness
brings happiness.
$
Plato
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwYYxV
GsS0E&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
 The Academy
 The world of the FORMS
 The Republic  philosopher-king
Great Athenian Philosophers
$ Aristotle
 The Lyceum
 “Golden Mean” [everything in
moderation].
 Logic.
 Scientific method.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLy
W5UYPYYs
 Boys attended school if their families
could afford it.
 Studied public speaking so they could
voice their views.
 Athens encouraged young men to
explore many areas of knowledge
 Training – From
childhood a Spartan
prepared to be part of a
military state. Every
sickly child was
abandoned to die.
 At the age of seven,
boys began training for
a lifetime in the
military.
 Hard training and
dieting for life to
become excellent
soldiers.
 Think 300
Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE
Persian Wars: Famous Battles
$
Marathon (490 BCE)
 26 miles from Athens
$
Thermopylae (480 BCE)
 300 Spartans at the Mountain pass
$
Salamis (480 BCE)
 Athenian navy victorious
$ Battle of Plataea
° Spartans defeat Xerxes and the
remaining Persians
Persian Wars 1:00 to 9:00 Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9rPaw4dJ_A
 Speed
 Power to ram
Persian ships
 203 men crew
 The more oars the
stronger and faster
the ship
 After the Persian Wars, Athens set up
the Delian League, an alliance with
other Greek city-states
 Athens used its power in the league to
slowly form the Athenian Empire,
forcing other city-states to remain with
the league
Peloponnesian Wars
 Sparta defeated Athens
 Ended Athenian domination
 Democracy suffered
 War continued for years
 Sparta fell
 As Greeks battled among themselves a new
power rose in Macedonia, a kingdom to the
north
 Start 11:14 - end
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Golden “Age of Pericles”:
460 BCE – 429 BCE
Start – 12:00 - end
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Olympia
The Ancient Olympics:
Athletes & Trainers
The 2004 Olympics
Olympia: Temple to Hera
The 2008 Olympics
Athens: The Arts & Sciences
$ DRAMA (tragedians):

Aeschylus

Sophocles

Euripides
$ THE SCIENCES:

Pythagoras

Hippocrates  “Father of Medicine”
The Geography of Greece
 Geographical Characteristic # 1 – Seas, used
as a link to the outside world. Greece is part
of the Balkan Peninsula
 Geographical Characteristic # 2 –
Mountainous region, which causes Greece
and its city-states to be more isolated from
one another and serves as barriers for
protection.
 Greece fiercely defended the independence
of their city-states. Endless rivalry led to
frequent wars.