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- Periods of Ancient Greek History37
- Geography of Ancient Greece28
- Minoans and Mycenaeans43
- Greek Colonisation121
- Greek City-States and Government127
- Athens and Athenian Democracy74
- Spartan Society and Government59
- Greco-Persian Wars74
- Peloponnesian War11
- Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Period46
- Daily Life and Society in Ancient Greece55
- Greek Gods and Mythology18
- Ancient Olympic Games52
- Greek Culture, Arts and Learning44
- Legacy of Ancient Greece84
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The Athenian Empire and The Age of Pericles (Golden Age) Daily Life in Classical Athens By the 5th century BC, Athens had the largest population of the Greek city-states. Before the plague in 430 BC, Athens and its surrounding area had a population of 300,000. About 4...
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Ancient Greece Crete and Thera - Civilation on Crete- Minon because of King Minous -Thera may be the birth place of Atlantis According to legend, the King and his wife gave birth to a half human and half bull creature, a...
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The Olympic Games - creado desde un Mapa Mental The Olympics in Ancient Greece Olympia Mythology
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Ancient Greece Spring 2020 FEBRUARY 13, 2020 The Archaic Period Key Development #1: The Polis (City State) The polis is generally said to have been created during the Archaic Period, but there is a lot of debate on which period it origin...
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Ancient Greece Ancient Greece Greece is a country made up of little islands and slim peninsulas. A peninsula is a land that is surrounded by water on only three sides. At Crete, one of the islands, a people called the Minoans lived ...
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Macedonia's Invasion of Greece and Alexander the Great Macedonia's roots and early beginning Macedonians were viewed as barbarians by the Greeks. The Macedonians were rural people organized into groups, not city-states like Greece. In the 5th century BC, however, Macedoni...
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Chapter 8 - Ancient Greece Page 228 Peninsula in southern Europe. Mountain ranges run-up to the coast in many places = travel and farming are difficult. Home to some of the ancient world's greatest civilizations. Land o...
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Founding Stories Founding Story: Greece King Cecrops didn't have a name for his new city Poseidon and Athena both went to claim it as their own Poseidon, as a gift to persuade Cecrops to let him be the patron, struck the ground w...
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The Rise of Greek Civilization Geography Pieces of Greece drifted away into the Mediterranean sea Mountains are the major landform of Greece Small patches of farmland In 3000 B.C., many Greeks were islanders Islands and Peninsulas caused less commu...
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Brief history of Ancient Greece 3000-1100 BC -- the Creto-Mycenaean Era. in 1700 BC the pyramids of Egypt were already standing and Babylon was world's first Megapolis. On Crete, however, a mysterious civilization was flourishing. Crete people were ...
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Marathon 490BC - created from Mind Map Persian Objectives The reorganisation of the crushed Asiatic Greeks The consolidation of their control over the northern Aegean Punishment of non-Asiatic Greek cities that had attacked Sardis Numbers Sources suggest 9...
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Ancient Greece Geography of Greece Greece is a peninsula Some of it's city-states are Cornith, Thebes, Argos, Delphi, Troy, Sparta, Athens. Greece was used to be called Macedonia. Asia Minor Is actually called present day turkey. Sp...
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480 Invasions (Xerxes) 1. If Athenians obey the oracle, they would have to go far away and build a new city2. Thermistocles doesnt like this and proposed that the oracle was referring to a navy ("build an army of wooden walls")3.According t...
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Ancient Greece - created from Mind Map_1 Trojan warWho where the greek? Where did the greek live?How did the greek live? Sparta Boys Girls
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Untitled INTRODUCTIONThe ancient Greeks were a mix of peoples who had settled on the Balkan Peninsula and on the coast of Asia Minor since the 2nd millennium BC.The Greek world was organised into independent city-states, calle...
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The ancient Greek civilization Origins of the ancient Greek civilization Ancient Greece covered the east, west and south of the Aegean region, which is in today's Greece and Turkey. Before they developed the ancient Greek civilization, the ancient ...
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Untitled Study Guide for Greece Test:Geography: - The Geography of Greece Hindered Greek Unification and lead to separate Greek City states. - Greece is a peninsula and there is 1, 400 islands near Greece - Greece has rocky so...
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Solon (638 – 558) - created from Mind Map Reasons for the need of a mediator/reformer Harsh law of debt Hektemoroi Rich exploited the poor Conditions ripe for tyranny Loans secured on personal freedom - borrower could be sold in to slavery Owed 1/6th of their...
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The Golden Age of Athens 460-429 BCE The Golden Age of Athens Post Persian Wars - Before the Persian Wars, democracy in Athens was in name only- The Persian Wars Created a shift in power - The common man had risked his- Now he felt that his v...
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Parthenon: The Parthenon was built around 447 BC and finished around 438 BC. Materials used to build the Parthenon were limestone, terracotta, pentelic marble and wood. The Parthenon was built in the honour of the Gr...
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The Ionian Revolt 499-494BC - created from Mind Map Causes Herodotus sees the revolt as the ambitions of Aristogoras and his father-in-law Histiaeus does not take into account that there was widespread discontent throughout the Greek cities of Asia Minor Aristogoras co...
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Common Greek Culture - Dark Ages to Archaic Polytheistic Pantheon - 12 Most Important 100s of others Anthropomorphic Gods - Humans but bigger and perfect in formAssociated with natural and human activities ReligionShare religious ideas in the Illiad Princi...
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Athens background information 1. Athens had been a tyranny ruled by Peisistratus who died in 527 BC 2. Peisistratus had previously exiled the Alcmaeonidae family in 546 BC 3. Peisistratus' son, Hippias became tyrant, but was unpopular as he foreig...
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The Persians & Greeks Herodotus was a Greek historian who described the Greek-Persian wars, but his historical point of view wasn't objective. Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC) was established by Cyrus the Great, who conquered Media...
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coso history :) olympic games The modern Olympic Games were inspired by the ancient Olympic Games of the 8th century BC. Organized in ancient Greece based in the city of Olympia, carried out between 776 BC. C. and 393 of our era.&nbs...
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The Rise of Sparta 600 BC Spartan-Bare minimum anti-comfort Toughness Ruthlessness ...
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Untitled Who had the power to vote in the Ancient Athenian Democracy? only citizens could vote or you have to be registered in your deme (village) women, slaves, men under 18, and medics could not vote b/c they were not consid...
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Greece chroniological order - notes 750 BCE -Dorian and Ionians had the idea to make city-states/ polis's - independent greek city states 2 parts of each city state. The Acropolis - temples on mountains, and the waller main city where there was a market...
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PERSIAN PREPARATIONS 480-479BC - created from Mind Map WHY THE DELAY? MARDONIUS IN HDT'S.ACCOUNT ROUTE
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5th period log 1-A Pindus Mountains: Run through the middle of the mainland of Greece for rugged terrain Aegean Sea Separated the different Greek subcultures and groups Also made travel by sea a strong suit of the Greeks &...
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Antient Greece Geography Shapes Greek civilization Greece is a peninsula Mountains cover Greece Greek communities saw themselves as separate countries The Seas surrounding Greece were the Mediterranean, Lonian, and the Aegean s...
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Greece Hélade: is the name giving to the geographycal territory where the greek civilization developed Myceneans: The Mycenean civilization developed in the Peloponese peninsula, and lives at the same time as the Mino...
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Xerxes Xerxes' Battle Strategy:-At Thermopylae, Xerxes got impatient with waiting to fight the Spartans and ordered the Medes and Cissians to attack and try to bring them back alive, but the Medes' fell, but others had taken...
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History Mid Term Jan 14 1.Why was sea travel important to early Greece? (123-126) 2. Why did the Greeks develope myths? (123-126) 3. What were the two most powerful citi states in early Greece? (127-133)
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MLB - World History Notes - 1 In the first Persian invasion the Athenians were able to stop them at marathon Second Persian invasion (led by Xerxes), they were able to route the Persian navy at Salamis Athenians got rid of the Persians in 47...
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The ancient Greeks and Romans - created from Mind Map Western world´s great civilization Contrubutions Conquerors
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Legacy of Greece - created from Mind Map Science & Technology Culture Government
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Untitled_1 MINOANS: The Minoans lived on the Island of Crete. The most important city on Crete was Knosses. MYCENAENS:The Mycenaens lived in the Southern part of the main land in Greece. THE AGORA: The activities that occurred i...
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Ancient Greece Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, developed from the Bronze Age, with civilizations such as the Minoan and Mycenaean, to the classical era, characterized by Athenian democracy and the Persian Wars. A...
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Greek civilization - creado desde un Mapa Mental Geographical space Minoan (2 600-1 600 BC) Archaic period ( 800- 480 BC)
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