Monday-
Pericles Plan to Win- avoid land battles & wait to attack Sparta from the sea & build walls protecting city & ports
Rise of the Philosophers=lovers of wisdom
A philosopher is someone who tries to explain the nature of life
Socrates 470-399 BC
Socrates was a philosopher of Ancient Greece
Socrates taught by asking questions/honor & power
Plato 427-347 BC
Student of Socrates
Wrote The Republic
Aristotle 384-322 BC
Colossus of Rhodes- made of bronze, lasted 50 years due to earth quakes
The Temple/Statue of Artemis 800 BC
The Statue of Zues at Olympia 450 BC made of gold of marble
Peninsula
Minoan- 2000- 1400 BC
Mycenaean- 2000 BC
Trojan War- army led by Mycenaean kings attacked the independent trading city of Troy
Dorian-
Homer- great story teller who was blind
Epic-narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds
Myth- traditional stories about gods, ancestors, or heroes
Geography of Greece
Greece is a small country in Europe
Greece is surrounded by Mediterranean sea, Aegean sea, and Ionian sea
Tuesday-
Important of Geography to Greece- the sea was extremely important to the Greeks
Not good farm ground
Used sea as transportation
Mountains covered 3/4 of ancient Greece
Mount. Olympus home of the 12 Greek gods
Zeus- king of gods, sky, thinder
Hera- women, marriage
Demeter- harvest, agriculture
Poseidon- sea
Athena-
Apollo- music, poetry, healing
Artemis- The hunt, wild animals, childbirth
Aphrodite- love, beauty, pleasure
Ares- war
Hermes- transitions and boundaries
Hephaestus- blacksmisths
Hestia- hearth, home, domesticity
Dionysus- vine, grape harvest, wine making, wine
City-states, some were ruled by kings, others were ruled by small group of noble, landowning families, and others by a few powerful people
Ancient Olympics- records of Olympics date to 776 BC and lasted until 393 AD when Romans ended them
Minoan Civilization- 2000-1500 BC
Heavily influenced by he Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilization
Named after legendary Crete king
Knossos not overcrowded, plumbing, toilets, sewers
Minoan women known for their are and pottery
Downfall of the Minoans
Historians think it could have been an earthquake which leveled cities and theory ship
Wednesday- No school!!!!!!!!!
Thursday- watch 20 min video and 45 minute vidoe
Friday-
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