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World History~Unit 1: Ancient Europe~

Terms/Events ~Greece~ Definition

The Minoans

The Mycenaeans

Aeolian Greeks

Dorian Greeks

Athens

Sparta

Aristocracy

Democracy

-Ekklesia -Strategoi/Archon -Boule

-Ostracize -Heliaea -Psephos

Hoplite

Phalanx

Trireme

Greco-Persian War

The Oracle at Delphi

Greek Golden Age

Philosophy

The Peloponnesian War

Hellenism

Greece: Battles

Marathon

Thermopylae

Salamis

Plataea

Syracuse

Aegospotami

Arginusae

Luectra

Gaugamela

Greece: People

Homer Helen Achilles

Patroclus Paris Hector

The Titans Zeus Athena

Ares Aphrodite Apollo

Poseidon Aesclepius Tantalus

Echo Narcicus Pan

Solon Cleisthenes Helots

Xerxes Darius Miltiades

Phedippides Leonidas Sophocles

Oedipus Pythagoras Socrates

Pericles Aristotle Themistocles

Philipp II Alexander Bucephalas

Hephastion Roxanna

Greece: Achievements

Acropolis Parthenon Amphitheater

Red Figure Black Figure Kouras

Olympics Knossos Iliad

Odyssey Column Styles: Doric, Ionic, And Corinthian

Essential Questions

1) Why did people choose to settle in Greece?

2) What are the two leading theories pertaining to the destruction of the Minoans?

3) How did Mycenaean culture differ from that of the Minoans?

4) What is Mythology? What purposes did it serve the Ancient Greeks?

5) What are some words and symbols that western culture has taken from the Greeks?

6) How did democracy develop in Athens?

7) Why did it make them feel superior?

8) In what ways did Athens and Sparta differ?

9) What made the Greek military the greatest military in the world?

10) Why did Greece go to war against Persia?

11) Why did they prevail?

12) What did it mean for Greek culture?

13) Why did Athens and Sparta go to war with one another?

14) How did the Syracuse Campaign prove disastrous for Athens?

15) What did the Peloponnesian War do to Greece?

16) How did Phillip II of Macedon seize Greece?

17) What is the most significant contribution of Alexander the Great to western culture?

18) What lessons can our society learn from the Ancient Greeks?

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