Chapter 5 Section 1

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CHAPTER 5 ANCIENT GREECE
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Bellringer

• An unexamined life is not worth living.
• -Socrates
• What does that mean?

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Chapter 5 Section 1

• Minoans
• Myceneans
• Homer

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Chapter 5 Section 2

• Spartans

• Athenians

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Life After the 300
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Chapter 5 Section 3

• Athens remains as the elite and dominate city
  state.
• The Persian Wars- The Athenians dominate the
  Persians on the water and defeat King Xerxes at
  the battle of Marathon.
• Delian League- an alliance with Greek city states.

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Athens under Pericles

• The time after Persian Wars was a golden age for
  Athens which became more democratic
• it was called the Age of Pericles after its
  wise and skillful leader.
• In response to the Athenians growth of power the
  Spartans create the Delian league.

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The Peloponnesian War

• Sparta VS. the Athenians
• Result of war. Sparta wins but does so with help
  of Persian navy.
• Athens loses its empire and its navy. But city is
  spared.

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Greek Philosophers

• Socratic method is cross questioning. Answer a
  question with a question.
• He writes no books.
• He is put on trial and charged with corrupting
  the youth.
• Drinks poisonous hemlock and dies.

• Plato a student of Socrates
• He resolves that rulers should be
  philosopher-kings.
• He founds the Academy.
• Platos main political principle is that
  government is a science and requires expert
  knowledge.