Ancient+Greece

Ancient Greece 800 BC- 146 BC Matt Davis & Nathen Cookman Ancient Greece directory site Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece Wars of Ancient Greece Geography of Ancient Greece Culture and Society of Ancient Greece media type="custom" key="10842191" Important People of Ancient Greece 1. Pericles- Helped achieve the height of Athenian brilliance and power, and helped establish Athens as a democratic society. 2. Plato- Considered the greatest philosopher of Western civilization, he developed and wrote down many of his thoughts on reality. 3. Socrates- Greek philosopher who developed the Socratic method of teaching using question and answer format to teach students. His method is still widely used today. 4. Pheidippides- Ran 26.2 miles to inform Athens of the victory at Marathon. 5. Homer- Wrote the epic poems of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Ancient Greek Terms 1. Epic poem- Long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero. 2. Acropolis- A fortified area at the top of a hill that was used as a place of worship and refuge during attack. 3. Polis- The standard Greek city-state. 4.Hoplites- Heavily armed infantry soldiers. 5. Democracy- A government by the people or rule of many.

Ancient Greece was a settled land of many different city-states. The first of these states was Mycenae. Mycenaean civilization reached its peak between 1400 and 1200 BC, and was made of powerful monarchies. Although, by the late thirteenth century B.C. Mycenae had started to fall apart. The city-states had started to fight each other and widespread earthquakes caused the city to fall apart by 1100 B.C. After the collapse of the Mycenae, the Greeks went into the Dark Ages. This period has little recorded information and lasted from 1100 to 750 B.C. During this time many Greeks left the mainland and moved to many smaller islands or Ionia. Ionia was a narrow strip along the coast of Asia Minor or present day Turkey. By 850 B.C. Greek farming had revived and the basis for a new Greece had formed. The new Greece consisted of many small city-states. Many of these included Athens, Sparta, Knossos, Troy, and Byzantium. Sparta and Athens had become the most powerful of these city-states. Greece had one common enemy, the Persians. After the Athenian navy helped lead a revolt against the Persian control of the Ionian city-states, Darius, the Persian ruler seeked revenge. The Greek fought and beat the Persians at Plataea in 479 B.C. The Athenians and Spartans then fought in The Great Peloponnesian War. The Spartans destroyed the Athenians in 405 B.C. In 338 B.C. all of Greece came to rule under Macedonia under the rule of Philip II. Alexander the Great then went on to conquer many lands fromEgypt to Syria to Persia. media type="custom" key="11490106" media type="youtube" key="jxKwysVTeYg" width="425" height="350"

Timeline


 * 1) 1900 BC-Minoan civilization on Crete peaks.
 * 2) 1300 BC-Mycenaean civilization reaches its hight.
 * 3) 1100 BC-Mycenaean civilization collapsed.
 * 4) 1250 BC-Greeks sack Troy.
 * 5) 750 BC-Dark Age of Greece ends.
 * 6) 700 BC-Athens becomes a unified polis.
 * 7) 500 BC-Classical Greece flourished.
 * 8) 431 BC-Great Peloponnesian War begins.
 * 9) 405 BC-Athenian Empire destroyed.
 * 10) 323 BC-Alexander the Great dies at age 32.

Plato- " A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." 