Week of September 19-23

Monday: We discussed forum posts. We continued our notes.

Tuesday: We continued with notes. We also watched a video over the theories of Atlantis.

Wednesday: We continued with Notes.

Thursday: Work day

Friday: Work day

Notes:

Greece is a small country in Europe
Peninsula
- piece of land that is surrounded by water
- Greece is made up of 6000 islands
- Mediterranean sea, Aegean Sea, and Ionian Sea
The sea was important to Greece b/c
- they did not live on the land but around the sea
- used for fishing, trade, self defense, transportation- lack of resources
3/4 of Greece are mountains
- Mt. Olympus
  - home of the 12 Olympian Greek Gods
Mountains caused Greeks to not be able to farm
never had a large population
transportation was hard because of mountains
some leaders looked to expand Greece
Greek city-states
Minoans
- 2000-1500 BC
- Crete
- heavily influenced by Egypt and Mesopotamian civilizations
- named after legendary Crete King Minos of Greek mythology
- known for trade on the seas
- generally peaceful
- known for advanced cities
  - plumbing, toilets, sewers
- women having much higher status in earlier civilizations
  - known for their art and pottery
- Downfall
  - around 1500 BC, ended abruptly
  - could have been an earthquake
  - could have been over ran by the Mycenaean
  - could have been Atlantis
Mycenaean
- 1660-1100 BC
- Mainland- Greece
- heavily influenced by Minoans
- more war like
- trade through the sea
- known for piracy on the seas surrounding Greece
- known for city-states

Olympics
- Olympiads- every 4 years
- they did some sports in the nude
The had nice weather all year round= outside people
Plato
- Greek philosopher
- only known source discussing location of Atlantis
Polis- city
Monarchy: government ruled by one person -king, queen
Aristocracy- gov't ruled by a small group of wealthy landowning families
Oligarchy- a gov't ruled by a few powerful people
Tyrants- powerful individyuals who seize control from the gov't
- could be good or bad
- today we tyranny as bad
Democracy- ruled by the people
- Athens had perhaps the World's first democracy
Education in Athens
- only for sons of wealthy families
- started at age 7- focused on developing good citizens
- studied reading, grammar, poetry, history, math, music, logic, and public speaking

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