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Ancient Greece and You. What You Need to Know About Those Wild and Crazy Greeks in One Smooth Powerpoint !. Fight the Persians Like a Greek Greco-Persian Wars 499-449 BCE. Ionian Revolt (499-493 BCE) Led Darius to exert greater control Wants to punish Athens and Eritrea - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Ancient Greece and You
What You Need to Know About Those Wild and Crazy Greeks in One
Smooth Powerpoint!
Fight the Persians Like a GreekGreco-Persian Wars 499-449 BCE
• Ionian Revolt (499-493 BCE)– Led Darius to exert
greater control– Wants to punish Athens
and Eritrea• Darius mounts the attack
(490 BCE)– Successfully takes Eritrea– Defeated at the Battle of
Marathon by Athens
• Second Persian Invasion (480 BCE)– Xerxes I takes over w/ huge army– Defeats Allied Greek states at
Thermopylae• Overrun Greece• Persian Navy defeated at Salamis
– By 478 BCE, Persia had been kicked out as far as Byzantium
• Delian League– Athens led (anti-Sparta)– Continued to push out the
Persians• Peace of Callias Ends the War
The Persian Wars
Be Golden Like the Greeks (Or at Least Athens) 480-404 BCE
• Pericles (445 BCE)– Non-wealthy could hold
public office, paid jury duty, interest in public life
• Athenian Democracy– The Assembly
• All citizens voices could be heard
– Providing for the Citizen• Social welfare, jobs, public
workers
• Trade and Commerce– Need to import food due to
environment– Primarily based on sea
lanes– Export of manufactured
goods• Education
– Women stayed home– Men learned to read, write,
philosophize, and train for the military
Think Like a Greek
• Greek Philosophy– Use of Reason and Logic– Look at the world
around you (observation)
– Attempts to explain the process of power and the natural world• Think the geocentric
theory devised by observation
Rule Like a Greek• Advantage
– Encouraged civil discourse, education of the public, and progress
– Allowed for peaceful overthrow of gov’t
• Disadvantage– Slowed the decision making
process (Socrates and Aristotle)
– Not everyone could vote– Stupid people could vote too
• Demos-kratos (Democracy)– Power of the people
• Direct democracy– Votes by all citizens over 20– Led to problem with
representing peasants• Representative democracy
emerges– Representatives from villages
would represent food producers in the Assembly of Citizens
Build Like a Greek
• Temples– Columns, Open-Air– Used for cult worship of
gods (deity statues)• Open-Air Theatre
– Usually carved into the hillside (utilizing environment)
• Sport Arenas– Hippodromes,
gymnasiums, stadiums!
Temple of ArtemisPediment
Columns
Open Air
Colorful
Greek Theatre
Sporting Events
Be Great Like the Greeks (or at least Alexander)
• Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE)
• Macedonian Prince– Great military leader– Daddy issues (Philip II)
• Long road of conquest– Defeats the Persians
(Darius III)– Controls from the Adriatic
Sea to the Indus River
• Know When to Stop– Wanted to conquer India– Troops were tired of
fighting• Alexander turns back (keep
the troops happy!)
• Legacy– Encouraged intermarriage
and colonization by the Greeks
– Hellenistic culture spreads eastward as a result
Alexander’s Empire
Examples of Hellenism in the East
Fall Like the Greeks• Death of Alexander Leads to
Breakup of Empire– Ptolemaic (Egypt)– Seleucid (Meso/Persia)– Antigonid (Macedonia)– City-states wrestle for power
• 2 Leagues Form and Fight– Achaean (Thebes, Corinth,
Argo)– Aetolian (Athens, Sparta)
• Rome takes advantage and conquers (146 BCE)