Monday-
Lighthouse of Alaxandria
- 280 BC
- World's first lighthouse(reflected sunlight by day and fire by night
- Destroyed from earthquakes
- Remains were found in the Mediterranean Sea in 1994
- Egypt is building an underwater museum for tourists
Geography of Greece
- Greece is a small country in Europe
- The main part of Greece on a penisula
- Greece is surrounded by what three bodes of water
- Mediterranean, Ionian, Aegean
- Made up of 6000 islands
- Sea is very important to Greeks
- transportation
- resources
- military protection
- 3/4 mountains
- Didn't have fertile land for agriculture
- Didn't have large populations
- Based on City States
Ancient Olympics
- 776 BC lasted until 393 AD when the Romans ended them
- Lasted one day at first then extended to five days
- Started a tribute to Zeus and has a mythological origin
- Modern Olympics Games started up again 1896-
- Pentathlon
- Long jump
- Javelin
- discus
- Stadion- 200 yards
- Wrestling
- Climate
- great climate
- people lived outside
- Minoans
- mainland greece
- 2000-1500 BC
- Heavily influences by the Egyptians and Mesoptamiuan 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
- known for its advanced cities Knossus
- Not overcrowded, plumbing, toilets, sewers
- Women had a high status
- Art and pottery
- downfall
- 1500 BC ended abruplty
- Historians think it could have been an earthquale which leveled cities and their ships
- They could have ben over ran by the Mycenaeans
- Some historians think Minoa be Atlantis
- Mycenaneans
- controled the area around Greece from 1600 BC -1100 BC
- Heavilty infulenced by the Monoans
- like war like than Minoans
- Know for their trade around the Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea
- Known for their piracy on the seas surrounding Greece
- Known for their city-states, Athens, Mycenae, Pylos, Tiryns
- Historians aren't sure if city-staes were independent or more united
- Mycenaean's did unite to fight the Trojan War against Troy
- Mycenean's fell apart due to wars and the Sea People's sacking their city-states
- Eventually the Dorians came down from the north and took over Greece
- Dorians
- 1150=750 BC
- Came from the area north of Greece
- Less advanced than the Mycenean's
- Trade and culture slowed
- Greece went into a Dark Age
- Homer
- Greel epic poet from 750-700BC
- Narrative poems celebrated heroic deeds
- Lliad was about the Trojan War
- Odyseey was a squel that was after the Trojan War
- Polis- city
- Acroplois- people gathered to discussed politics
- Monarchy- government ruled by one person, king, queen
- Aristocracy- government ruled by a small group of wealthy, landowning families
- Oligarchy- government ruled by a few powerful people like a dozen or so
- Tyrant- powerful person who seize control from the government because of their fame they think they are better
- Democracy- ruled by the people, Athens had the first democracy, only allowed citizens to participate
- Education in Athens
- only for sons of wealthy families
- reading
- grammar
- poetry
- history
- math
- music
- logic
- public speaking
- public debate, athletics
- girls were educated to do home stuff
- Sparta
- very powerful and had its own army
- defeated the messenians in 725 BC and in 650 BC
- unlike Athens and other city states it did not have democracy
- built a military state
- conquered other city-states to gain wealth
- valued strength and discipline over freedom beauty and learning
- Men were citizens
- women were not allowed to become citizen
- second class in Sparta were people who cam from other city-states or other countries
- they could own businesses
- third class were helots/slaves
- worked in the fields or were servants
- Sparta Women
- service to Sparta was stressed
- Received some military training
- Athletics were stressed
- Had more freedom in comparison to Athens
- Sparta Warriors
- learn to read and write in Sparta was not very important
- Training to become a good soldiers was stressed
- Boys left at age 7 and trained to be soldiers until they were 30
- Athletics was stressed
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