Greek Unit Notes
Geography of Greece
¾ Mountainous
Rocky Soil
Minoans
Mycenaean
Crete Traded
with Minoans
Palaces Copied
Minoan Culture/Customs
Dolphins-Peaceful Paintings Warlike
King-a (tale) Invaded
Crete
Sea Traders Conquered
by Dorian or other Sea Traders
Bronze
Destroyed by Fire
Own Writing System
Destroyed by Fire/earthquake 1450
Agora-marketplace / Acropolis- Walled area with
important buildings on a hill
Democracy- Rule by the people
Pericles-Ruler of Athens during the Golden Age/Made
many improvements
Socrates-Taught with questions/killed for his beliefs
Homer-Blind Greek
Poet who told tales the Iliad and Odyssey
Iliad is about the war between Greece and Troy
(Turkey today?)
A Greek, Queen Helen was kidnapped by Troy. She had a ‘face that launched 1000
ships” when the Greeks set out to get her back. Greeks won the war with a trick (Trojan Horse)
Odyssey is about Odysseus and his 10-year journey
home from the Trojan War. He has
many adventures such as fighting a Cyclopes and posiden the god of the sea.
Persian War
Cause: More land meant more power
Course: Several Battles (marathon-Geeks win,
Thermopylae-Sparta lost, salamis-Greeks win)
Consequence: Because the Persians lost the war Greek culture
lives on
Peloponnesian War
Cause: Sparta feared Athenian power and attacked to stop it
Course: lasted 27 years, plague hit Athens, Persia gave
Sparta money
Consequence: Sparta wins war/ Democracy replaced with
Oligarchy
Plato-Student of Socrates and opened a school called, ‘The
Academy”
Aristotle-Student of Plato/ Science is learned through
observation and proof