Chapter 4-Ancient Greece (1750 BCE-133 BCE)

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MAIN IDEAS
1.  Trade greatly affected the development of early Greek civilizations.
2.  Mycenaean civilization flourished in Greece between 16900 and 1100 BCE.
3.  The Greeks used the Iliad and Odyssey to present role models of the values of courage, honor, and excellence.
4.  The polis or city-state was the central focus of Greek life. 
5.  The search for farmland and the growth of trade resulted in colonies and the spread of Greek culture and politics.
6.  During the Age of Pericles, Athens became the center of Greek culture.  
7.  The creation of the Athenian empire led to war with Sparta.
8.  Greek philosophers were concerned with the development of critical or rational thought about the nature of the universe.  
9.  Greeks believed that ritualized religion was necessary for the well-being of the state.  
10.  Under Alexander the Great, Macedonians and Greeks conquered the Persian Empire. 
11.  Hellenistic cities became centers for the spread of Greek culture.
 

Key Terms, People, and Places
epic poem helot Delian League Aristotle
arete ephor Great Peloponnesian War Thucydides
Minoans Aristotle Thebes Delphi
Mycenaeans Solon Macedonia Gulf of Corinth
Homer Cleisthenes Asia Minor Hellenistic Era
Aegean Sea Athens Delos Epicureanism
Black Sea Hellespont ritual Stoicism
Crete Bosporus oracle Philip II
Ionia Byzantium tragedy Alexander the Great
polis Sparta philosophy Erotosthenes
acropolis Age of Pericles Socratic Method Euclid
agora direct democracy Aeschylus Archimedes
hoplite ostracism Sophocles Macedonia
phalanx Darius Pythagoras Alexandria
democracy Xerxes Socrates Pergamum
oligarchy Pericles Plato  





Map of Ancient Greek City-States


Map of Allies-Peloponnesian War