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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