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Unit 4 The Beginnings

Unit 4 The Beginnings . Essential Questions. What ideas did the U.S. Founding Fathers take from the Athenian democracy to create our Government? How did characteristics and contributions of Greek culture help to lay the foundation for Western civilization?

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Unit 4 The Beginnings

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  1. Unit 4 The Beginnings

  2. Essential Questions • What ideas did the U.S. Founding Fathers take from the Athenian democracy to create our Government? • How did characteristics and contributions of Greek culture help to lay the foundation for Western civilization? • How did the rugged landscape of Ancient Greece contribute to the development of the polis? • What were the cultural, military, social, political, and economic characteristics of Ancient Greece? • How did the empire of Alexander the Great establish a basis for the spread of Hellenistic culture?

  3. Map of Ancient Greece

  4. The Minoans • Mediterranean Sea • Carpenters & metal workers • Battering ram

  5. The People • Farmed & fished • Household duties & attended sporting events • Bull Leaping

  6. Human / Environmental Interaction • Provide a list of occupations performed by the Minoans. • What did most of the occupations have in common? • Why would occupations related to the sea be plentiful in Minoan society?

  7. Crete the Minoan Civilization (1:13)

  8. Ancient Crete – The Minoans (7:47)

  9. Cities & Palaces • Palace • Knossos

  10. Knossos – largest city of Crete

  11. A room in the Knossos palace.

  12. Map of Crete

  13. Rulers & Religion • Priest – kings • Mother earth Fall of the Minoans • Theseus & Minotaur • Southern Russia • Language, fashions & ship building

  14. Thesueus & the Minotaur • King Minos = ruler of Crete • Minotaur = devourer • Princess Ariadne = most beautiful woman (in her eyes) • King of Athens • Prince Theseus • 7 Athenian boys & girls

  15. Theseus & the Minotaur

  16. Mycenae, Greece The Mycenaean civilization developed and expanded throughout the Greek peninsula during the Bronze Age, and by 1650 B.C. was beginning to expand beyond it. But while the Minoans had become a commercial power, Mycenae became a military power. By the mid-15th century, Mycenae had conquered much of Crete and had seized Knossos. Mycenae flourished with the collapse of Minoan commerce.

  17. The Mycenaeans • Southern Russia • Language, fashions & ship building

  18. The Trojan War • Troy • Homer • Illiad • Odyssey Click for the story

  19. It was said she has the face to launch a 1,000 ships

  20. City of Troy

  21. Excavation – Modern day Troy

  22. Modern day Troy

  23. Trojan War • Fact or fiction? You decide… • Cause – Helen of Sparta • Helen married Menelaus, brother of King Agamemnon • Helens’ father – oath to support Menelaus • Paris – prince of Troy • Odysseus – King of Ithaca

  24. Trojan War

  25. Trojan War

  26. Trojan War

  27. Dark Ages • Civil war • Dorians • Ionia

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