CLASSICAL GREECE
Using the sites below and your textbook, write out the answers to the following questions in your spiral. Whatever you don’t finish in class today, you must finish for homework. Add any other information that you find especially interesting! (bonus points for info not asked for in this assignment)
http://www.sweetsearch.com/search?q=ancient+greece (this is a page with resources if you want to search out any additional information)
http://www.sikyon.com/index.html
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/PERSIAN.HTM (was not working earlier today)
http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/westciv/persian/
http://www.timelineindex.com/content/view/1642
1. Why did the Persians invade Greece? What is the chronology of the Persian Wars?
2. What is a "hoplite" and why was he important in this war?
3. What is a polis? What were the major city-states? Why was each important?
4. What were the major types of government in the city-states?
5. What was the importance of Olympia?
6. What was the importance of Sparta?
7. What was a helot?
8. What was the importance of Corinth?
ATHENS LAB
Oh, you, olive shiny and violet crowned glorious Athens, famous in songs, rampart of Greece, divine city. (Pindar)
Identify the following Athenians (who, when, importance?)
http://www.sikyon.com/Athens/ahist_eg01.html
(Spelling may vary.)
1. Drakon (also, Dracon)
2. Solon
3. Peisistratos
4. Pericles
5. Cleisthenes
Respond to the following questions writing out the answers: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/GREECE.HTM (was not working earlier today—you may need to use the other sites)
6. What was the Delian League?
7. What was the Athenian Empire?
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/athnlife/politics.htm
8.. How and when did democracy start in Athens? What preceded it?
9. In Athenian democracy, what were the names of the various parts of the government?
10. What happened to end the great democratic experiment? What followed?
http://www.stoa.org/athens/sites/acropolis.html
Using the site above, write out the answers to the following questions:
11.What was the Acropolis? Why was it important? Who ordered it built?
12. What was its main function? What other structures were part of the Acropolis?
13.Scroll to the bottom of the page to click on pictures of the Acropolis. Look at each part of the Acropolis?
14.Why would the Acropolis be a culture marker for ancient Athens?