Overview of Ancient Greece as modified by Ms. Susan Pojer of Horace Greeley HS in Chappaqua, NY

1. Ideas : What ideas were sparked? Questions : What questions came up for you? Feelings : What feelings did you have? Facts : What facts did you note?

2. Final Regents Review: GREECE By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY

3. ANCIENT GREECE By: Ms. Yang

5. With a neighbor, explain how the geography affected the development of Ancient Greece.

9. Why do people need religion? How did the Greeks use religion for that purpose?

11. Zeus Hera Athena Hercules

12. Archaic Greece: 1650 BCE - 700 BCE

13. Bronze Age Greece

14. Crete: Minoan Civilization (Palace at Knossos )

15. Knossos : Minoan Civilization

16. Minoan Civilization

17. The Mycenaean Civilization

18. Homer : The “Heroic Age”

19. The Mask of Agamemnon

20. "Hellenic" (Classical) Greece: 700 BCE - 324 BCE

21. ATHENS: Yesterday & Today Back to the polis…

22. Piraeus: Athens’ Port City

24. What political contribution did the Greeks give to Western cultures and societies?

25. Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE

28. Golden “Age of Pericles ”: 460 BCE – 429 BCE

33. The Classical Greek “Ideal” Classical Greek art was focused on idealism and beauty.

34. Phidias’ Acropolis The acropolis was the fortified hilltop area of the city-state.

35. the acropolis of athens

36. The Acropolis Today Back to the polis!

37. The Parthenon The Parthenon was a temple built to the Athenian patron goddess, Athena .

39. Influences of Greek architecture

40. The Agora Housed in the acropolis was the agora, or the marketplace , where men frequented to buy/sell or discuss politics.

41. Olympia This was the site of the Olympic games that the Greeks attended every year. Though they fought each other, they would cease war just for the Olympic games.

42. The Ancient Olympics: Athletes & Trainers

43. Olympia: Temple to Hera

44. The 2004 Olympics

45. Athens’ strength became their weakness, and other Greek city-states grew tired of their power…

46. What were characteristics of Classical Greece culture?

47. SPARTA

49. SPARTA Helots  Messenians enslaved by the Spartans (used for hard labor).

50. Peloponnesian Wars The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens v. Sparta) weakened both Athens and Sparta. Athens and Sparta went to war against each other. Though Sparta won, the war greatly weakened them both…

51. Macedonia Under Philip II PHILIP II CONQUERS GREECE. Philip II hated the Greeks because they looked down on the Macedonians. He sets out to conquer Greece and the work is continued by…

52. "Hellenistic" Greece: 324 BCE - 100 BCE

53. … his son: Alexander the Great

55. Alexander the Great’s Empire

56. Alexander the Great in Persia

57. The Hellenization of Asia Hellenism: blend of Greek and Eastern (Persian, Egyptian, and Indian) cultures

59. Pergamum: A Hellenistic City

60. The Economy of the Hellenistic World

65. What is Hellenism? How did Alexander the Great’s conquest lead to cultural diffusion? What were some characteristics of Hellenistic Greece?

66. The Breakup of Alexander’s Empire