Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece

• Colette Falsey and Madhia Akram

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People

• Euclid- Was an important mathematician and a a
  excellent in geometry.
• Archimedes- He was an astronomer an excellent
  physicians and worked on machines.
• Pythagoras- Made the Pythagoras theory in
  Geometry.
• Hippocrates- He made medicine and wanted doctors
  to take an oath and be responsible and respect
  there patients.
• Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes-
  The were professional play writers.
• Thucydides, Herodotus- They were Greek
  historians.
• Socrates- Believed absolute standard didn't
  exist. Believes in questioning.
• Aristotle- Questioned human belief, thought, and
  knowledge. Made scientific method we use today.
  Such as binomial nomenclature.
• Plato- Wrote conversations of Socrates.
• Alexander the Great- Greatest ruler that ever
  existed in Greek conquered a lot of land.
• Homer- Wrote epics Iliad and the Odyssey .

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Greek City-States

• ATHENS
• Government democracy, trial by juries, council
  of 500
• had lots of slave captured from wars.
• Fun festivals for athletics, drama religious
  occasions
• Education sons of wealthy families studied math
  reading, history, poetry, music, logic
  speaking. Girls of rich were taught to run
  households.
• Women no rights
• Allies Delian League
• Cultural Achievements Art, drama, literature,
  medicine, philosophy, government

• SPARTA, The Military State
• Government several branches- assembly, Council
  of elders, 5 elected officials, 2 kings rule army
• Helots conquered Massena's forced to stay and
  work for them
• Education taken at age 7 to start training in
  warfare. Girls were taught to reading, survival
  skills, could participate in sports
• Women few rights, more independent.

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Major Events

• Peloponnesian War
• This war was between the two city-states, Athens
  Sparta. Sparta had a stronger army and Athens
  had a better navy but from the location of the
  war it was hard to attack by sea. Still Pericles
  tried to avoid land battles.
• By the 2nd year plague had spread through Athens
  territory killing at least 1/3 of their men but
  still they kept fighting.
• After many more years Athens began t weaken and
  eventually surrendered to the Spartans. Athens
  lost empire, power and wealth.

• Persian War
• The Greco-Persian Wars were a series of conflicts
  between several Greek city-states and the Persian
  Empire that started in 499 BC and lasted until
  448 BC. Even though the Persians had a large
  amount of forces the Greek city-states defeated
  the Persians. But, the Greeks had better supplies
  than the Persians.

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Long Term Impacts

• Greek Democracy- The Greek built the first
  city-states ever known. Greek democracy created
  at Athens was a direct, not a representative
  democracy. Their council consisted of 500 people.
• Olympics- The Olympic games was first found in
  Olympia, Greece. At one point in time the Olympic
  started to become declined as The Romans tried to
  take over. But were later started again in Greece
  gained power back. Now every four years there are
  winter and summer Olympics.

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Questions?!?!

• 1. Euclid was an important ______ and a a
  excellent in _______.
• 2. _________ and ________ were Greek historians.
• 3. Athens government had a council of ________.
• 4. _______ were conquered Messenians that were
  forced to stay and work for the Spartans.
• 5.________ was a military state.
• 6.The Peloponnesian War was between _______ and
  _______.
• 7. The __________ were a series of conflicts
  between several Greek city-states and the
  __________.
• 8. Athens had a stronger _______ while Sparta had
  a stronger ______.
• 9. The Greeks built the first _________ ever
  known.
• 10. The Olympics were found in _______,________.