Monday-
Pericles Plan to Win-
- Avoid land battles
- Wait to attack Sparta from the sea
- Build walls protecting city & port
Rise of the Philosophers=lovers of wisdom-
- A philosopher is someone who tries to explain the nature of life
- After losing to Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, people in Athens turned to philosophers for answers
- Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Socrates 470-399 BC-
- Socrates was a philosopher of Ancient Greece
- Socrates taught by asking questions/ honor & integrity not wealth & power
- This method of questioning is still called the Socratic method
- Put on trial and found guilty for "corrupting the youth of Athens"
- Put to death hemlock=poison
- "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance"
Plato 427-347 BC-
- Plato was a student of Socrates
- He started school called The Academy that lasted 900 years
- Wrote a book The Republic
- The book talked about a perfectly governed society-not democracy
- In his ideal society, all citizens would fall naturally into three groups; farmers and artisans, warriors, and the ruling class
- The person with the greatest intellect from the ruling class would be chosen king
Aristotle 384-322 BC-
- Aristotle was a student of Plato
- He wrote about science, art, aw, poetry, government, etc.
- Taught Alexander the Great
- "He who studies how things originated will achieve the clearest view of them."
The Colossus of Rhodes-
- Statue of Helios, Greek titan god
- Was made of bronze
- Same size as the Statue of Liberty
- One of the 7 wonders of the Ancient world
- Lasted just over 50 years due to earthquake
- Believed to have been melted down and sold by Arab invaders
The Temple/Statue of America-
- Built around 800 B.C.
- Artemis is the Greek Goddess of Fertility
- The temple was destroyed several times due to wars
- Current day archaeologists have found the foundations of 5 temples built on top of each other
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia-
- Built around 450 B.C.
- Statue was made of marble and gold
- Eventually destroyed after being taken apart and moved
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus-
- Built around 353 B.C.
- Tomb was built by Queen Artemisia as a tribute to her husband/brother King Mausolus
- Destroyed by earthquakes in the 1100-1400's AD
- All that survives today are the foundation blocks
Lighthouse of Alexandria-
- The lighthouse was built in 280 BC
- It was the worlds first lighthouse.(Reflected sunlight by day/fire by night)'Most likely destroyed by earthquakes from 956-1325 AD
- Remains were found in the Mediterranean Sea in 1994
- Egypt is building an underwater museum for tourists.
Tuesday-
Key/terms People section 1-
- Peninsula-A peninsula is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border, while being connected to a mainland from which it extends
- Minoan- A seafaring trading people that lived on the island of Crete 2000 to 1400 BC
- Mycenaean- An Indo-European person who settled on Greek mainland around 2000 BC
- Trojan War=Army led by Mycenaean kings attacked the independent trading city of Troy
- Dorian- People that migrated into mainland Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization
- 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
- The main part of Greece in on a peninsula
- Greece is surround by three bodies of water- Mediterranean, Aegean, Ionian
- The rest of Greece is made up of 6000 islands, but only 227 are being inhabited
- The sea was extremely important to the Greeks for protection, fishing, trade, and transportation
- Mountains covered around 3/4 of ancient Greece
Twelve Olympian Greek Gods-
- Zeus- King of the gods, sky, thunder
- Hera- Women, marriage
- Demeter- Harvest , agriculture
- Poseidon-Sea
- Athena- Wisdom, courage, etc
- Apollo- Music, Poetry, healing
- Artemis-The hunt, wild animals, childbirth
- Aphrodite- Love, beauty, pleasure
- Ares-War
Gods
- Hermes- transition and boundaries
- hephaestus- blacksmith, craftsmen, artisans
- hestia- hearth home, domesticty, family
- dionysus- vine grap wine harvest winemaking wine
Bad land for agriculture
was difficult to travel
due to issues never had a large population
looked to expand
Greek City States-
- Due to Greece's geography, city-states developed instead of a unified country
- What is a city- state? 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 776 BC and lasted until 393 AD when the Romans ended them
- Lasted one day at first but eventually extended to five days
- Happened every four years- An Olympiad
- Started a tribute to Zeus and has a mythical origin
- The modern Olympic Games started up again in 1896 in Athens
- The big competition at the Games was the Pentathlon
- Long jump
- Javelin
- Discus
- Stadion-200 yards
- Wrestling
Climate-
- Average temperatures
- Ranging from 50's-80's
- Men were outside frequently
Wednesday-No school
Thursday-
Minoan Civilization-
- 2000-1500 BC
- Heavily influenced by the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations
- Named after legendary crete King Minos of Greek Mythology
- Known for its trade on the seas
- Due to its isolation on the island of Crete, generally peaceful
Minoans-
- Known for it’s advanced cities-Knossus- No overcrowded, plumbing, toilets, sewers
- Known for women having much higher status than in earlier civilizations
- Know for their pottery
Downfall of the Minoans-
- Around 1500 Bc the Minoan civilization ended abruptly
- Historians think it could have been a earthquake
- Could have been over ridden
- Some historian think Minoa could have been Atlantis
Friday- Finished Atlantis Video
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