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CHAPTER 9
800 BC.-600 AD.
1. GEOGRAPHY SHAPES GREEK CIVILIZATION
2. MOUNTAINS AND SETTLEMENTS
3.
SEAS AND SHIPS
4. TRADING CULTURES DEVELOP
5. THE MINONAS
6. THE MYCENEANS
7. GREEKS CREATE CITY-STATES
8. LIFE IN A CITY-STATE
9. CITY-STATE AND COLONIZATION
10. PATTERNS OF TRADE
11. ARISTOCRATS AND TYRANTS RULE
12. GREEK GODS
13. LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
14. FABLES
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GEOGRAPHY
SHAPES GREEK
CIVILIZATION
 THE PENISULA OF ANCIENT GREECE HAS A
MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE IN THE
SUMMER ITS DRY AND COOL IT HAS THE
BREEZE KNOWN AS THE ETESIAN. THE
WINTERS ARE REALLY COLD. ALSO IT HAS
3 REGIONS LIKE THE COAST THE
LOWLANDS AND THE MOUNTAINS.
MOUNTAINS AND SETTLEMENTS
 THE GREEK PEOPLE STARTED MAKING
SETTLEMENTS ON TOP OF MOUNTAIND BECAUSE
ALL THE FLAT LAND WAS TAKEN BY HOUSES AND
SHIP DOCKS NEXT TO THE COAST
SEAS AND SHIPS
 TRAVELING THREW THE LAND WAS DIFFICULT
SO THE GREEKS TURNED TO THE SEAS.
TRADING CULTURES DEVELOP
 THE GREEK PEOPLE TRADE A LOT OF ARTIFACTS
OF THEIR CULTURE
AS YOU CAN SEE IN THESE IMAGE
THE MINOANS
 THE MINOAN CIVILIZATION WSA A BRONZE AGE
CIVILIZATION THAT AROSE ON THE ISLAND OF
CRETE. IT FLOURISHED FROM APROXEMETLY THE
27TH CENTURY BC TO THE 15TH CENTURY BC.
THE MYCENEANS
 THE MYCENEANS WERE THE FIRST GREEK
SPEAKERS.THEY ENTERED GREECE BY MID
BRONZE AGE OR THE END OF THE BRONZE
AGE.THEY MADE AN ELITE CHIEFTAN SOCIETY

GREEKS CREATE CITY-STATES
 THE GREEK OF THE DARK AGE LEFT NO WRITTEN
RECORDS. ALL THAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE
PERIOD COMES FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL. AFTER
THE MYCENAEN CIVILZATION CRUMBLED, THE
GREEKS STARTED TO JOIN TOGETHER FOR
PROTECTION AND STABILITY.
PATTERNS OF TRADE
 TRADE MADE THE REALLY RICH THEY SELL
METALS AND OTHER ARTIFACTS GREEK SHIPS
SAILED TO EGYPT AND CITIES AROUND THE
BLACK SEA.

ARISTOCRATS AND TYRANTS RULE
GREECE IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY A
TYPE OF GOVERNMENT IN WHICH PEOPLE RULE
THEMSLEVES

RULE BY A FEW PEOPLE
 ATHENS IS A CITY OF DEMOCRACY BUT IT BEGAN
WITH A DIFFRENT KIND OF GOVERNMENT THEY
WERE CONTORLLED BY A KING THE
LANDOWNERS HAD CONTROLL OVER ATHENS
Greek gods
 Aphrodite – goddess of love and beauty
 Apollo – sun god instrument god (music)
 Ares – god of war
 Artemis – goddess of hunt
 Athena- goddess of wisdom
 Demeter- goddess of agriculture
 Dionysus- god of Grapes, wine cups, and wineskins
 Hades – god of the underworld
 Hephaestus- the god of forge and fire
 Hera –first goddess and she is the god of marriage
 Hermes- the god of animal, husbandry, roads and life
 Hestia- goddess of hearth home
 Poseidon- god of the seas and earthquakes
 Zeus – Greek king of the gods & god of sky and weather
 THE ERLIEST ARTS ARE POTERY BECAUSE THAT IS
WHERE THEY STARTED THEIR ART BY MAKING
ARTIFACTS AND DESIGNS OF THEIR CULTURE
FABLES
 FABLES STERTED BY A SLAVE CALLED
AESOP. HE STARTED BY TELLING STORIES
TO HIS KING AND HE ENJOYED LISTENING
TO THE STORIES.YEARS LATER AFTER
AESOP DIED WRITERS STARTED WRITING
DOWN HIS FABLES.
MAKE A GROUP OF TWO OR THREE PEOPLE.
ON SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER WRITE DOWN THE POSITION OF
EVERY GOD. FOR EXAMPLE
- THE GOD OF WATER IS _____. Tell me what every god does.
- Aphrodite
Apollo
Ares
Artemis
Athena
Demeter
Dionysus
Hades
Hephaestus
Hera
Hermes
Hestia
Poseidon
Zeus