The Ancient Greeks

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The Ancient Greeks

• Chapter 9.1
• The Rise of the Greek Civilization

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Where in the World is Greece?
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Ancient Greece
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• What type of topography did Ancient Greece have?
• What type of jobs did they have?

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• What type of foods do you think they ate?
• What type of crops did they grow?
• What type of animals did they domesticate?
• What type of climate did the ancient Greeks
  enjoy?

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Greek Empire

• What civilizations that we have covered, were
  included in the Greek Empire?

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Greece Today
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Mountains and Seas

• Greece was the first civilization to develop in
  Europe and the western part of Asia.
• Greeks settled in an area dominated by mountains
  and seas

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Balkan Peninsula

• Greece is located on the Balkan Peninsula

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Greece is located in the Mediterranean and Aegean
Seas

• Aegean Sea

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Mediterranean Sea
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Islands of the Aegean Sea
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An Island Civilization

• Greek myths describe an early civilization on an
  island called Crete
• Civilization was called the Minoans

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Minoans- 2500BC to 1450 BC

• Built palace at Knossos
• 1st to develop in Aegean region
• NOT GREEKS
• Trade was important economic activity

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Minoan

• Minoan civilization collapsed
• Reasons
• Earthquakes
• Invaded by Mycenaeans

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Mycenaeans

• Mycenaeans moved into mainland Greece

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Mycenaean Kingdom

• Mycenean king lived in a palace on a hill
• Protected by walls

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Traders and Warriors

• Mycenaeans conquered Minoans
• Controlled trade in Aegean
• Mycenaeans were proud of military successes in
  Trojan War

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A Dark Age

• Mycenaean kingdoms fought
• Earthquakes destroyed their fortresses
• Mycenaean civilization crumbled

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The Hellenes

• Hellenes or Greeks
• Lived on Greek mainland
• Adopted an alphabet from Phoenician traders

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Colonies and Trade

• Greeks established colonies
• A colony is a settlement in a new territory that
  has close ties to its homeland

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The Greek City-State

• City-state was made up of a town or city and the
  surrounding area
• Each city-state or polis was like an independent
  country

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What Did a Polis Look Like?

• Fort on hilltop
• The hilltop was called an acropolis
• Agora or marketplace

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What Did Citizenship Mean to the Greeks?

• Male citizens had the right to vote, hold office,
  own property, and defend themselves in court
• Only free, land-owning men born in the polis
  could be citizens

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Citizen Soldiers

• Wars were fought by wealthy nobles riding horses
  and driving chariots
• Citizens called hoplites made up city-state
  armies

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Hoplites

• Fought on foot
• Heavily armed
• Carried a round shield, sword, and spear
• Fought in a formation called a phalanx