Transcript 2100 – 150 BC

Ancient Greece
2100 BC to 150 BC
1. Early Greece
2. The Classical Age
3. Greek Achievements
4. Alexander the Great
The small, rugged peninsula in southern Europe –
Greece – home of early advanced civilizations
2100 – 150 BC
The Geography of Greece
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2100 – 150 BC
Bronze Age Greece
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The Minotaur
One
prisoner in
the
labyrinth
survived to
tell the
stories of
the halfman, halfbull beast
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2100 – 150 BC
Crete: Minoan Civilization
(Palace at Knossos)
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2100 – 150 BC
Minoan Civilization
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2100 – 150 BC
Minoan Civilization
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Minoan Civilization
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2100 – 150 BC
The Trojan Wars
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Homer: The “Heroic Age”
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2100 – 150 BC
The Mask of Agamemnon
King of Mycenae
who was murdered
by his wife’s
mistress
2100 – 150 BC
2100 – 150 BC
The Rise of Greek City States
▪What is an acropolis?
2100 – 150 BC
Sparta
2100 – 150 BC
Sparta Military Might
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2100 – 150 BC
Mount Olympus, Home of the
Gods
2100 – 150 BC
The Gods of Olympus
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Athens
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2100 – 150 BC
Athens: Yesterday and Today
2100 – 150 BC
Piraeus: Athens’ Port City
2100 – 150 BC
Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE
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2100 – 150 BC
Persian Wars: Famous Battles
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Marathon (490 BCE)
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Thermopylae (480 BCE)
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Salamis (480 BCE)
2100 – 150 BC
Golden “Age of Pericles”:
460 BCE – 429 BCE
2100 – 150 BC
Peloponnesian Wars
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2100 – 150 BC
Philosophy
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Religion
Art and Architecture
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Sport
2100 – 150 BC
Socrates
•Know thyself!
•question everything
•only the pursuit of goodness
brings happiness.
2100 – 150 BC
Plato
•The Academy
2100 – 150 BC
Aristotle
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2100 – 150 BC
Hippocrates
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2100 – 150 BC
Herodotus
2100 – 150 BC
Sophocles
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Phidias’ Acropolis
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The Acropolis Today
Temples for the Gods
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2100 – 150 BC
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Temple of the Greek Goddess Athena
The Agora
2100 – 150 BC
2100 – 150 BC
The Classical Greek “Ideal”
2100 – 150 BC
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Greek Columns ▪
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Olympia
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2100 – 150 BC
The Ancient Olympics:
Athletes & Trainers
2100 – 150 BC
The Olympic Games
2100 – 150 BC
Olympia: Temple to Hera
2100 – 150 BC
The 2004 Olympics
2100 – 150 BC
Macedonia Under Philip II
2100 – 150 BC
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2100 – 150 BC
2100 – 150 BC
Alexander the Great’s Empire
2100 – 150 BC
Alexander the Great in Persia
2100 – 150 BC
Phalanx tactic
2100 – 150 BC
The Hellenization of Asia
Greek Like Culture mixed with others throughout Asia
2100 – 150 BC
Pergamum: A Hellenistic City
2100 – 150 BC
The Economy of the Hellenistic World
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The Breakup of Alexanders Empire
Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BC
At age 33