Transcript Chapter 8 The Ancient Greeks

Chapter 8
The Ancient Greeks
By: Hallie Mosher
Lesson 1
The Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, and Trojan
Cultures.
The Cycladic and Minoan Culture
• The Cyclades are a group of 200 islands which
were located east of the Greek mainland in
the southern Aegean Sea.
• Archeologists have learned that most Cycladic
people made their living by fishing or trading.
• The Minoan culture began on a large island in
Crete.
• In about 2000 B.C. the Minoans began to build
large, richly decorated places.
The Mycenaean and Trojan culture
• The Mycenaean culture takes its name fron
the city of Mycenae.
• Archeologists believe that a settlement at
Mycenae.
• The Trojan culture was centered in the ancient
city of Troy.
• The Trojans couldn’t defeat the Mycenaeans
so they built a Trojan horse to get in and
defeat them.
Lesson 2
The Rise of the City-states, Athens, Sparta, and
to be Greek
The Rise of the City-states and Athens
• The development of the Classical Greek
civilization began with the rise of the citystates.
• Among the best-known and most powerful
Greek city-states which were Sparta and
Athens.
• Most city-states were located in coastal areas
and had economies based on trade.
• The Spartans were made up of three classes.
Sparta and to be Greek
• The city-state of Athens was located on Attica
which is a part of Balkan Peninsula, which is
northeast of the Peloponnesus.
• More reforms in 508 B.C. made the Athenian
city-states the world’s very first democracy.
• Since the city-states were independent,
people didn’t think of belonging to a country
as Americans do.
Lesson 3
The Persian wars, the Age of Pericles,
achievements to the Golden Age, and Greek
Philosophers.
The Persian Wars and the Age of
Pericles
• For Hundreds of years the Greek city-states fought over
land and trade.
• Soldiers from the Athens met a larger Persian Force on
the plain of Marathon which was not far from the
Athens.
• The Athens felt pride in new leadership position after
the defeat of the Persians.
• Pericles was a relative of Cleisthenes, the Athenian
leader who had taken governing authority away from
the Aristocracy and given it to the city-states assembly.
The End of the Golden Age and Greek
Philosophers
• Pericles was a relative of Cleisthenes, the
Athenian leader who had taken governing
authority away from the Aristocracy and given it
to the city-states assembly.
• Pericles wanted to make Athens not just the
“school of Greece” but also its most powerful
city-state.
• After the Peloponnesian War there were still
many great thinkers and teachers and teachers in
Athens.
Lesson 4
The making of an empire, building of an empire,
end of an empire, and Alexander’s Legacy.
The making of an empire and building
of an empire
• Alexander was born in 356 B.C. in Macedonia.
• His father was Philip II, a Macedonian who
had spent part of his boyhood in Greek lands.
• With the Greek city-states under his control,
Alexander turned to completing his father’s
plan for attacking the Persian Empire.
The End of the Empire and Alexander’s
Legacy
• Alexander the Great ruled a wide area, but he
wanted still more lands.
• Beyond Persia lay the Indus Valley.
• Alexander the Great and his army came into
contact with many different cultures.
• Many of the conquered peoples learned to
speak and write in toms.