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Ancient Greece and You

Ancient Greece and You. What You Need to Know About Those Wild and Crazy Greeks in One Smooth Powerpoint !. Fight the Persians Like a Greek Greco-Persian Wars 499-449 BCE. Ionian Revolt (499-493 BCE) Led Darius to exert greater control Wants to punish Athens and Eritrea

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Ancient Greece and You

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  1. Ancient Greece and You What You Need to Know About Those Wild and Crazy Greeks in One Smooth Powerpoint!

  2. Fight the Persians Like a GreekGreco-Persian Wars 499-449 BCE • Ionian Revolt (499-493 BCE) • Led Darius to exert greater control • Wants to punish Athens and Eritrea • Darius mounts the attack (490 BCE) • Successfully takes Eritrea • Defeated at the Battle of Marathon by Athens • Second Persian Invasion (480 BCE) • Xerxes I takes over w/ huge army • Defeats Allied Greek states at Thermopylae • Overrun Greece • Persian Navy defeated at Salamis • By 478 BCE, Persia had been kicked out as far as Byzantium • Delian League • Athens led (anti-Sparta) • Continued to push out the Persians • Peace of CalliasEnds the War

  3. The Persian Wars

  4. Be Golden Like the Greeks (Or at Least Athens) 480-404 BCE • Pericles (445 BCE) • Non-wealthy could hold public office, paid jury duty, interest in public life • Athenian Democracy • The Assembly • All citizens voices could be heard • Providing for the Citizen • Social welfare, jobs, public workers • Trade and Commerce • Need to import food due to environment • Primarily based on sea lanes • Export of manufactured goods • Education • Women stayed home • Men learned to read, write, philosophize, and train for the military

  5. Think Like a Greek • Greek Philosophy • Use of Reason and Logic • Look at the world around you (observation) • Attempts to explain the process of power and the natural world • Think the geocentric theory devised by observation

  6. Rule Like a Greek • Advantage • Encouraged civil discourse, education of the public, and progress • Allowed for peaceful overthrow of gov’t • Disadvantage • Slowed the decision making process (Socrates and Aristotle) • Not everyone could vote • Stupid people could vote too • Demos-kratos (Democracy) • Power of the people • Direct democracy • Votes by all citizens over 20 • Led to problem with representing peasants • Representative democracy emerges • Representatives from villages would represent food producers in the Assembly of Citizens

  7. Build Like a Greek • Temples • Columns, Open-Air • Used for cult worship of gods (deity statues) • Open-Air Theatre • Usually carved into the hillside (utilizing environment) • Sport Arenas • Hippodromes, gymnasiums, stadiums!

  8. Temple of Artemis Pediment Open Air Colorful Columns

  9. Greek Theatre

  10. Sporting Events

  11. Be Great Like the Greeks (or at least Alexander) • Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) • Macedonian Prince • Great military leader • Daddy issues (Philip II) • Long road of conquest • Defeats the Persians (Darius III) • Controls from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River • Know When to Stop • Wanted to conquer India • Troops were tired of fighting • Alexander turns back (keep the troops happy!) • Legacy • Encouraged intermarriage and colonization by the Greeks • Hellenistic culture spreads eastward as a result

  12. Alexander’s Empire

  13. Examples of Hellenism in the East

  14. Fall Like the Greeks • Death of Alexander Leads to Breakup of Empire • Ptolemaic (Egypt) • Seleucid (Meso/Persia) • Antigonid (Macedonia) • City-states wrestle for power • 2 Leagues Form and Fight • Achaean (Thebes, Corinth, Argo) • Aetolian (Athens, Sparta) • Rome takes advantage and conquers (146 BCE)

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