Athena gods: zeus, apollo, artemis, aphrodite, poseidon, venus,ares, dionysus, hephaestus, athena, hermes, hades,demeter, hestia,hera.
orgin of religion: greek religion was a predominant form of early paganism.
why they prayed to the gods: the did it for religious perposes and to thank them for things.they do it for the same reason we do today
monotheist and polytheist.
monotheist believe in one good
polythiest believe in more than one god
Delian league: was controlled by sparta and athens. athens was recognized as metroplis(mother city)
the league was land based and water based. athenian tactics avoided engagement with the spartan infantry.
purposes: to liberate the ionian greeks from persian rule. to safeguard the islands.
pericles: promoted the arts and literature reputation of being educational.
persian war-
hoplin-greek weapon made by wood covered bronze inside leather.
peloponnisian war-
short swords shield and helments.
hoplite-
heavy infrantry man. wore armour
battle of salamis- most improtant battle in history. the defeat at sa;amis shifted the war to greece's favor
money-
type of money- decardrachma, tetradachma, drachma, odol
helleniatic-
art work and architecture pread into india
succes or fail
it was a success
geography-
how the land and climate helped and hurt during battles.
with all the montains around and in the athens it made it hard to fight the athenians.
land-
greece is made up almost entirely of mountainous land woth only small areas of lowlands the mountains divided the citiesin ancient greece
sea-
the athenians were located near the sea in a region of greece called attica. because the athenians were so close to the sea they vacame traders.
climate-
hot dry summers. average temp in january was 4 degrees. they didnt get much rain so that made it hard to farm.
natural resources-
they had alot of olive trees. had lost of grapes you could eat them plain or make wine with them.lignite, petroleum, iron ore,bauxite,lead, zincnickle, magnesite, marble salt, only 23% of the land was useable.
trade and farming-
all mountains made it hard to farm so they barely had any crops. they mainly farmed olives.
mining-
the greeks developed extensive silver mines at laurium.
jobs-
most farmers worked alone but during planting season the whole family helped out.
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