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World History~Unit 1: Ancient Europe~
Terms/Events ~Greece~ Definition
The Minoans
The Mycenaeans
Aeolian Greeks
Dorian Greeks
Athens
Sparta
Aristocracy
Democracy
-Ekklesia -Strategoi/Archon -Boule
-Ostracize -Heliaea -Psephos
Hoplite
Phalanx
Trireme
Greco-Persian War
The Oracle at Delphi
Greek Golden Age
Philosophy
The Peloponnesian War
Hellenism
Greece: Battles
Marathon
Thermopylae
Salamis
Plataea
Syracuse
Aegospotami
Arginusae
Luectra
Gaugamela
Greece: People
Homer Helen Achilles
Patroclus Paris Hector
The Titans Zeus Athena
Ares Aphrodite Apollo
Poseidon Aesclepius Tantalus
Echo Narcicus Pan
Solon Cleisthenes Helots
Xerxes Darius Miltiades
Phedippides Leonidas Sophocles
Oedipus Pythagoras Socrates
Pericles Aristotle Themistocles
Philipp II Alexander Bucephalas
Hephastion Roxanna
Greece: Achievements
Acropolis Parthenon Amphitheater
Red Figure Black Figure Kouras
Olympics Knossos Iliad
Odyssey Column Styles: Doric, Ionic, And Corinthian
Essential Questions
1) Why did people choose to settle in Greece?
2) What are the two leading theories pertaining to the destruction of the Minoans?
3) How did Mycenaean culture differ from that of the Minoans?
4) What is Mythology? What purposes did it serve the Ancient Greeks?
5) What are some words and symbols that western culture has taken from the Greeks?
6) How did democracy develop in Athens?
7) Why did it make them feel superior?
8) In what ways did Athens and Sparta differ?
9) What made the Greek military the greatest military in the world?
10) Why did Greece go to war against Persia?
11) Why did they prevail?
12) What did it mean for Greek culture?
13) Why did Athens and Sparta go to war with one another?
14) How did the Syracuse Campaign prove disastrous for Athens?
15) What did the Peloponnesian War do to Greece?
16) How did Phillip II of Macedon seize Greece?
17) What is the most significant contribution of Alexander the Great to western culture?
18) What lessons can our society learn from the Ancient Greeks?
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