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Test Tomorrow 2/16

Tomorrow we have a test on what we've learned so far about Ancient Greece and will be about the following:
  • great civilization/key river
    • Mesopotamia/ Tigris and Euphrates River
    • Egypt/ Nile river
    • India/ Indus River
    • China/ Huang He River
  • Greece's Geography 
    • note the significance of Greece's location
    • Describe Greece's topography
    • Look at Greece's surroundings
    • How would all this affect their culture
  • A closer look
    • what bodies of water surround Greece
    • what large island is to the south/southeast
    • describe where Athens and Sparta are located relative to the sea, and to each other
  • identify
    • Aegean Sea
    • Ionian Sea
    • Adriatic Sea
    • Peloponnesus (north of the Ionian Sea)
    • Athens
    • Sparta 
    • Crete
    • Asia Minor
    • Macedonia
  • Geography/ Its significance
    • Greece os a mountainous peninsula
    • mountains cover three- quarters of Greece
    • approx 2000 islands in the Ionian and Aegean Seas
    • This combo shaped Greece's culture
    • they had many skilled sailors and shipbuilders
    • also farmers, metalworkers, weavers, potters
    • they had poor/ limited natural resources, so they needed trade 
    • it was difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain
    • (the whole slide)
  • Even More Geography
    • arable- suitable for farming
    • Greek diet
    • lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
    • temp range from the mid-40s in the winter to low 80s in the summer
  • Some early peoples- first, Mycenaeans 
    • whole slide
  • Meanwhile, "sea people" & Dorians
    • whole slide
  • enter Homer the bard (storyteller)
  • Some essential government terms
  • Aristocracy
  • politics- an exclusive club
  • tyrants seize control
  • rules, codes, and laws
  • eventually leading to... Cleisthenes
  • Cleisthenes
  • next in line...
  • Isagoras wins!
  • this is what direct democracy looks like 

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