What will you be learning in this unit?

 

Essential Questions:

1)  What cultural and architectural contributions came from Greece?
2)  What role did the Olympics play in Greek society?
3)  What were the different governments of Greece?
4)  How did democracy start?
5)  How were the Greek wars different from one another?

Vocabulary

peninsula -
epic -
acropolis -
city-state
aristocrat -
tyrant -
democracy -
tribute -
immortal -
philosopher -
tragedy -
agora -
plague -
blockade -
barbarian -
assassinate -
Hellenistic -

NOTES from class:
geography       

•    peninsula of peninsulas

•    mountains everywhere

•    surrounded by Aegean and Mediterranean Seas

•    very little farm land

•    relied on trading and sailing

limited space for housing


The Trojan War    *  individual city-states; each believed they were the best

•    Paris (the prince) kidnapped Helen and took  her to Troy

•    2 epics (long poems); the Odyssey and the Iliad, were based on the Trojan War and written by Homer

•    Greek soldiers hid inside a giant wooden horse and came out a night to attack Troy

•    war lasted 10 years





the Dark Ages        *  started after the fall of Troy

•    lots of poverty

•    people stopped trading and relied on what they could raise themselves

•    no written records were made

•    families resettled farms and developed villages near rocky hills known as the acropolis



Government

Sparta                                  Athens

military state                        ruled by Pericles

kingdom                                  democratic state

ruled by 2 kings                      only real democracy

2 tribes/ 28 aristrocrats        divided into 3 regions

                                              before 650BC, ruled by a king/strict laws

                                              only Athenian citizens could vote

HOMEWORK:  You have a project due on Friday!  Your choice:
Create a comic strip or journal entry highlighting what you have learned about life in Ancient Greece.  Your project must include the four elements we have learned about:  terrain or climate, homes, daily wilfe/roles of men and women, and food.  You may use class notes, textbooks, library books, and the internet.  Find out what Ancient Greeks ate for each meanl and include your findings in your comic strip or journal entry.