Greece – SOL Intervention

Sessions – 3 and 4Mrs. Petras

Why did the Greek speaking peoples develop into city-

states

•Stories of the Greek gods and goddesses which the Greeks used to explain the world around them

•Supreme Greek god who rules over Mt. Olympus and the other Greek gods and goddesses

• Greek “city-state”• Examples are:–Athens–Sparta–Thebes

•Government in which the people/citizens have the power and make their laws without representatives•Athens

•Greek city-state which focused on art, education, and civic duty•Had a great Navy

• Greek city-state which focuses on military duty and honor• People of this city-state sought

to be loyal, honorable, and strong• Located on Peloponnesus

• A war fought by Greeks, primarily Athens, against the Persians• Persians invaded Greece and

burned Athens during this series of wars• Athens eventually fully expelled

the Persians

•Greek fighting formation•Gave Greeks great

Advantage over the Persians

• Group of Greek city-states which joined together in a defensive alliance• The alliance was controlled by

Athens• Athens used its power to take

advantage of weaker Greek city-states

• Period of time in which Athens was at its height of prosperity• Athens was making

achievements in the areas of Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Architecture

• Leader of Greece during the Golden Age• Died in a plague after he

brought all people from around Athens into the city walls

• Greek philosopher who taught the way to find an answer was through a series of questions.• He was put on trial and convicted

to death for denying the cities gods and corrupting the youth

• Student of Socrates•Wrote The Republic on his

ideas of an ideal society• Left Athens for 10 years after

Socrates was put to death

•Was Plato’s student and Alexander the Great’s tutor

•This is a temple to the Greek goddess Athena

• Greeks wrote plays which commented on their own society– Tragedy– Comedy

•The Greek father of History

•Greek father of medicine

• War fought between the city-states of Athens and Sparta for control of Greece• Sparta won, but both city-states

were weakened and left open to attack

•Macedonian king who took advantage of Greece’s weakened stated and conquered

Alexander•Philip II’s son who created an empire which spanned from Greece to India and included Egypt!

• Culture created in Alexander’s empire• This culture is a blend of–Indian Culture–Greek Culture–Egyptian Culture–Persian Culture

•Hellenistic thinker who invented the pulley and a way to drill water out of the ground