Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece

• Mrs. Tinkers
• 6th Grade Social Studies Class

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The Greek Peninsula
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The Greek Peninsula

• Greece is a peninsula, which means that it is
  surrounded on three sides by water.
• Greece has a lot of smaller peninsulas sticking
  out from it, which means Greece enjoys many
  natural harbors. 

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Rugged Land

• Greece is covered with mountains. They are not
  huge mountains but if you are trying to go from
  place to place in Greece, you'll find the
  mountains a bit of a hindrance. 
• The highest mountain in Greece is Mount Olympus.

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Mount Olympus
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Rugged People

• Making a living was difficult. The growing season
  tended to be dry.
• There are not great rives for irrigation and
  fresh water came from shallow streams.
• Farm crops consisted of wheat, barley, and beans.
  Citrus trees and grapevines grew on the
  hillsides. Olive trees gave food and oil. Sheep,
  goats and cattle gave milk, cheese and meat.

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Common Foods in Ancient Greece
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Importance of the Sea

• The sea was an important to the people of ancient
  Greece. It was easier to travel by the sea than
  the mountains.
• The population grew and people moved from the
  mainland to the islands surrounding the mainland.
  

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Trade Routes

• Greek merchants established trade routes among
  the colonies and with many cities along the
  coasts of Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

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Earliest Settlers

• The earliest civilization began on the island of
  Crete.
• The people are called the Minoans after their
  legendary king, Minos.

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The Minoan Era

• The Minoan king lived in the capital city of
  Knossos, in a maze of a palace with 1500 rooms!
  It was a gorgeous palace. But during Minoan
  times, even poor people on the island of Crete
  had 4-room houses, with running water for
  drinking and bathing, and bathrooms that
  flushed! This was a very advanced civilization.

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The Minoan Era

• The Minoan king lived in the capital city of
  Knossos, in a maze of a palace with 1500 rooms!
  It was a gorgeous palace. But during Minoan
  times, even poor people on the island of Crete
  had 4-room houses, with running water for
  drinking and bathing, and bathrooms that
  flushed! This was a very advanced civilization.
  The ancient Minoans did have a written language.
  Far more than the records they left behind, the
  paintings on the walls of the palace at Knossos
  share the daily life of these ancient people.
  Some walls were painted with pictures of starfish
  and water scenes, much as you would expect from a
  civilization that lived on an island. 

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The Minoan Palace
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The Minoan Era

• The ancient Minoans did have a written language.
  Far more than the records they left behind, the
  paintings on the walls of the palace at Knossos
  share the daily life of these ancient people.
  Some walls were painted with pictures of starfish
  and water scenes, much as you would expect from a
  civilization that lived on an island. 

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The Minoan Era

• But some walls were painted with pictures of
  young people, both boys and girls, jumping over
  bulls. Scholars believed that bull jumping must
  have been a very popular sport in Minoan times.
• The artwork consisted of Frescoes, a painting
  made with watercolors on wet plaster.

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The Minoan Era

• Around 1700 BCE, an earthquake hit Crete. Much of
  the Minoan civilization was destroyed. The
  Minoans rebuilt. Around 1500 BCE, a volcano
  erupted near the island of Crete. Tidal waves
  followed the eruption. 
• The Minoans might have been wiped out by natural
  disaster or by war. There were warrior tribes on
  the mainland of Greece. But scholars believe the
  tidal waves certainly weakened them. Whatever the
  cause, around 1500 BCE, this civilization
  disappeared from the island of Crete.

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The Minoan Era

• The Minoans might have been wiped out by natural
  disaster or by war. There were warrior tribes on
  the mainland of Greece. But scholars believe the
  tidal waves certainly weakened them. Whatever the
  cause, around 1500 BCE, this civilization
  disappeared from the island of Crete.

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The End to the Minoan Era

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vVJoc9Flq4XE

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Mycenaeans Rule

• Myceaeans were devoted to warfare. Their palaces
  were strong-walled fortresses called Citadels.
• Each Citadels was the center of a small community
  ruled by a king. The king controlled the
  activities of the villages and farms.

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The Mycenaeans Rule

• Their rule did not last long. Historians are not
  sure why, but their civilization declined
  rapidly. Around 1200 B.C. its cities were in
  ruins.

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Achievements of the Greeks

• Heritage- is a system of ways and beliefs handed
  down from one generation to another.
• Architecture-A style or special way of building.

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Architecture
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Poetry and Music

• The best known poets are Homer and Sappho.
• Music was an accompaniment to the poetry.

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Stories and Legends

• The Greeks created myths and stories.
• These myths tell stories about the gods and their
  deeds.

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Great Philosophers

• Philosophy- The study of what people think about
  the meaning of life.
• They wanted to learn everything that they could
  about life.
• Plato and Socrates were the most famous.

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Math and Science

• Euclid developed the geometry.
• Archimedes was a scientist who discovered volume
  while taking a bath.

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Medicine

• Hippocrates is considered to be the father of
  modern medicine. He looked at ailments of his
  patients and tried to find cures that worked.

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Democracy