September 25th. - September 29th.

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  • Pericles Plan to Win 
    • Avoid land battles 
      • Had better navy 
    • Build a wall to protect cities 
  • Rise of Philosophers 
    • Lovers of knowledge
    • Someone who tries and explain the nature of life  
    • Socrates
      • Asking questions 
      • Believed in honor and integrity not wealth and power 
      • Socratic method 
      • Put on trial for corruption of the youth of Athens 
        • Put to death by hemlock (poison) 
      • "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
    • Plato 
      • Student of Socrates 
      • Started "the Academy" which lasted 900 years 
      • Wrote a book called The Republic 
        • "Perfectly governed society" - not a democracy 
        • Greatest intellect would be chosen king
    • Aristotle 
      • Student of Plato 
      • Wrote about Science, Law, Art, Poverty, Government, etc. 
      • Taught Alexander the Great 
  • BACK TO THE BEGINNING 
    • 7 Wonders of the Ancient World (5 in Greece)
        • Colossus of Rhodes 
          • Statue of Helios, Greek Titan God 
          • Lasted only 50 years 
          • Made of bronze 
          • Same size as the Statue of Liberty 
        • Temple of Artemis 
          • Built around 800 BC 
          • Artemis is the Greek God of Fertility
          • Destroyed due to wars
        • Statue of Zeus
          • Built in 450 BC
          • The statue was made of gold and marble
          • Destroyed after taken apart and moved  
        • The Mausoleum at the Halicarnassus 
          • Tomb was built by Queen Artemisia as a tribute to her husband/brother King Mausolus 
        • The Lighthouse of Alexandria 
          • 280 BC 
          • It was the worlds first lighthouse 
            • Sunlight at day and fire at night 
          • Destroyed by earthquakes 
      • Words 
        • Peninsula- a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border wile being connected to its main land 
        • Minoan- a seafaring  and trading people that lived on the island on Crete 
        • Mycenaean - an Indo-European person who settled in the Greek mainland 
        • Trojan War- army led by king attacking the city of Troy with a horse 
        • Dorian- people that migrated into the mainland of Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization 
        • Homer- great story who was blind 
        • Epic- narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds 
        • Myth- traditional fake story 
      • Geography 
        • Small country in Europe 
        • On a peninsula
        • Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, and Ionian Sea  
        • Made up of Islands 
      • Importance of Geography to Greece 
        • Good Navy 
          • They were on the sea
        • The sea linked them to other places for trade 
        • Mount Olympus 
          • Home to the 12 Gods 
            • Zeus 
              • King of the Gods , sky and thunder 
            • Hera 
              • Women, marriage 
            • Demeter 
              • Harvest 
            • Poseidon 
              • Sea 
            • Athena 
              • Wisdom, courage 
            • Apollo 
              • Music, poetry, healing 
            • Artemis 
              • The hunt, wild animals, child birth 
            • Aphrodite
              • Love, beauty, pleasure 
            • Ares 
              • War 
            • Hermes 
              • Transitions and boundaries 
            • Hephaestus 
              • Blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans 
            • Hestia 
              • Hearth, Home, domestic, family 
            • Dionysus 
              • Vine, Grape Harvest, Wine making, Wine 
    • Olympics 
      • Athens, Greece 
      • Long Jump 
      • Javelin 
      • Discus 
      • Wrestling 
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