Agenda Ancient Greece Objective Students will learn about

Agenda: Ancient Greece • Objective: Students will learn about the geography of Ancient Greece and how it impacted their culture • Warmup: Kahoot • Complete notes from “Geography” through “Greek Mythology” • Videos one through four with questions (skip video three) • Video response padlet • Targets: Geography of Greece • Socrative: • Socrative Review: log into socrative. com and type in code - a 90 a 6 e 95

Warm-up 1 1. Land surrounded on three sides by water is called a/an island or peninsula? 2. What sea separates Greece from Egypt (see map)? 3. Another name for Anatolia (Turkey today) is Asia Minor or Italy? Aegean 4. Greece had a polytheistic religion which means they believed in many gods or one god? 5. The chief Greek god is Apollo or Zeus? 6. In Greece, each city had it’s own government. We call these city-states or empires?

Ancient Greece I • 2000 BCE to 449 BCE

Geography • Ancient Greece was located on the Balkan and Peloponnesus Peninsulas (in Europe) and on the coast of Asia Minor (Anatolia)

• It was surrounded by the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas Balkan Peninsula Aegean Sea Asia Minor Peloponnesus Mediterranean Sea

City- States • Mountainous terrain and islands led to the formation of independent city-states (instead of a united empire)

• Polis- city and its surrounding countryside • Acropolis – high city with temples to the gods

• Greek cities were centers of trade and politics Rebuilt Greek Marketplace (Agora)

Greek Trade • Greece was dependent on trade because it had limited arable (farmable) land

• Greeks set up colonies around the Mediterranean due to overpopulation and the search for arable (farmable) land. • Trade spread Hellenic (Greek) culture

• Increased trade led to a switch from barter to a money economy

Trojan War • Fought over control of trade through the Dardanelles

Dardanelles: a strait linking the Mediterranean (Aegean) and Black Seas Troy

Homer • Blind poet who composed the epics The Illiad and The Odyssey • Epics: story-poems that tell of heroic deeds (passed down orally)

The Illiad • Tells of Trojan War and the warriors Achilles of Greece and Hector of Troy

The Odyssey • Tells of Odysseus’ adventures on his ten year journey home from Troy Odysseus meets the sirens

Greek Mythology • Polytheistic Religion • Explained natural phenomena, life events and human qualities

Greek gods and goddesses • Serve as symbols in and images in Western literature, art, and architecture.

Zeus and Hera chief god of thunder wife of Zeus goddess of marriage

Apollo and Artemis • Twins god of the sun, light, logic, and music goddess of the moon, and hunting

Athena and Aphrodite goddess of war and wisdom goddess of love