Week 5: Greece

Ancient Greece

I. Geography of the Aegean

II. Minoan Civilization on Crete 2600-1400 BCE

III.Shift to Greece – Mycenae 1600-1100 BCE

A. The Myth of the Minotaur

B. Mycenaean Greece

IV.The Greek Dark Age 1100-800 BCE

Important terms:

Crete Minos

Aegean Knossos

Myth of the Minotaur Peloponnesus

The Iliad The Odyssey

Homer

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Classical Greece

1. Political Structure - the Polis

A. Athens

B. Sparta

2. The Persian Challenge
3. Golden Age of Athens

A. The Delian League

B. Age of Pericles 499-421 BCE

Important terms: Demos

Democracy

Ostracism

Xenophobia

Persian Kings Darius and Xerxes

Hoplite warriors/ Phalanx

Delian League

Funeral Oration of Pericles

Parthenon

Athena

“The School of Greece”

Medea by Eruipides

Peloponnesian War

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Friday – In-Class evaluation and discussion of excerpt from The Iliad on page 45 in textbook.