What have we studied so far?

1. PERSIANS GREEKS INDIA: Indus River, Aryans, Mauryan, Gupta, Hinduism and Buddhism PHOENICIANS CHINA- Shang, Zhou, Qin, Confucianism, Daoism and Legalism HEBREWS MESOPOTAMIA NUBIA EGYPT What have we studied so far?

2. Ancient Greece

4. Map of Greece Dardanelles Europe Balkan Peninsula • Label the following: • Athens • Sparta • Troy • Balkan Peninsula • Peloponnesian Peninsula • Black Sea • Dardanelles • Macedonia • Europe • Asia Minor Peloponnesian Peninsula

5. Greek Geography • Greece was NOT a unified empire. Each city (known as a city state) was independent. • Mountainous terrain helped and hindered the development of individual city states.

6. Ancient Greece A little background… • Economy based on farming (agriculture) • Trade important as was the spread of the Greek culture • Shift from barter (trade) economy to money economy (coins) • Depended on trade to access resources not naturally found in Greece. • Depended on colonizing other places to deal with overpopulation and the search for land suitable for farming.

7. Ancient Greek Government

8. City-States • Because the geography of Greece is so mountainous, many settlements were separated from one another. • Over time these settlements became known as cities to the people who lived in them. • Each city had its own army, and its own money. They each even had their own government. • For these reasons these ancient Greek cities became known as city-states.

9. Forms of Government • Within the city-states that were throughout the country, four forms of government developed. • Monarchy- rule by one heriditary ruler • Oligarchy- rule by many • Tyranny • Democracy- rule by citizens

10. Athens vs Sparta