Unit 6: Ancient Greece Notes

COMPLETED NOTES

Geography & Climate

•What can you tell about the geography of Greece?

It has a lot of coastline and it very mountainous.

• What kinds of landforms do you see?

Mountains, Valleys, Peninsula, Islands

• Based on the geography, what kinds of jobs do you think people had that lived in Ancient Greece?

Shipbuilding, trade, fishing

• How is Greece different than other early civilizations that we have learned about?

There is no major river valley!

•What continent is Greece on?

Europe

SUBSISTENCE FARMING isgrowing only enough for yourself and your family to eat.

Cash crops grown in Ancient Greece were: Olives, Grapes, Wheat & Barley

The First Civilizations

The first civilizations in the region where Greece is today were the Minoanand the Mycenaean.

What kinds of jobs do you think they had?

Fishing, trading, shipbuilding, some farming

After these civilizations collapsed, and then the region began to recover, what did people living there do to get more food?

They traded with other areas and created colonies in other areas.

What effect did this have?

The Greek culture spread to other areas.

The Rise of City-States

ARISTOCRACY: a landholding, elite group that ran the government.

Who could be a citizen in Ancient Greece?Native-born men that own land.

ACROPOLIS: the main gathering area in a city, usually on a hill.

AGORA: the area below the acropolis that was a marketplace where people could meet and debate issues.

CITY-STATE / SPARTA / ATHENS
KEY FACTOR TO RUNNING THEIR CITY-STATE / Military / Democracy
LIFE FOR BOYS/MEN / All Spartan boys left their families and lived in barracks. At age 20, all men entered the army, continuing to live in military barracks for 10 more years. They stayed in the army until they were 60. / Athenian boys went to school and were taught to read, write, do math, play sports, sing and play instruments. At age 18, they became citizens.
LIFE FOR GIRLS/WOMEN / Spartan girls were trained in sports, making them healthy and fit. As women, they lived at home (away from their husbands living in barracks). They had more freedom than other Greek women and could own property. / Athenian girls stayed home and were taught spinning, weaving and other household duties. In some wealthy families, they were taught to read and write.

DIRECT DEMOCRACY: every citizen could vote on laws

VS.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: citizens choose a smaller group to decide on laws

Which of these do we use in the United States?Representative Democracy

ASSEMBLY: group meeting

How did Pericles improve life in Athens?

He paid office holders so that poorer citizens could have jobs in the government.

Started many building projects of temples and statues

Supported artists, architects, scientists and philosophers

Who did the Greeks model their alphabet after? Phoenicians

How is this different than early writing that we have learned about? It has letters that represent sounds, instead of pictures and symbols to represent whole words.

Who won the Peloponnesian War? Sparta

What was one negative effect of this war?

It weakened all of the Greek city-states.

Would you consider Alexander the Great a hero or a villain? Explain your answer.

Your opinion!