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    1. An Introduction to Ancient Greece
    2. Greek Influences
      • Birth of Western Civilization - Foundation of European and American ideology built in Greece
      • Contributed to language, science, math, government, medicine, art, architecture, and even history!
    3. Greek Timeline
      • 2800-2000 BCE - Minoans, lived on the island of Crete. Knossos main city.
      • 2000-1200 BCE - Myceneans, attacked Troy
      • 1200-800 BCE - Greek “Dark Ages.” Dorians invade and settle Greece.
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    5. Palace at Knossos
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    7. Greek Timeline
      • 800-500 BCE - Archaic Age
      • Began trading in Mediterranean
      • Ad hoc colonies set up throughout region
      • Why?
    8. Greek Timeline
      • 800-500 BCE - Archaic Age
    9. Classical Age
      • 500-323 BCE
      • Rise city-states/polis, not unified
      • Various government types
      • Sparta - (spartan = simple)
        • military state
        • no social distinctions
        • large class of helots
    10. Classical Age
      • Athens
        • First gov’t based upon democratic principles
        • Citizenship expanded gradually
        • Pericles - Greatest Athenian leader, oversaw many construction projects
    11. Conflict in Greece
      • Persian Wars
        • 490 B.C.E. Darius invades, Battle of Marathon
        • 480 B.C.E. Xerxes invades, Athens burned, but defeat by Athenian navy
      • Delian League - controlled by Athens
    12. Peloponnesian War
      • Resentment towards Delian League, Athens builds
      • Athens vs. Sparta
      • 431-404 B.C.E.
      • Sparta defeats Athens
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    14. Hellenistic Age
      • 324 - 100 B.C.E.
      • Greek culture spreads throughout world
      • Begins with Phillip of Macedon, takes Greece - little resistance
      • Alexander succeeded Phillip
      • Begins massive campaign, builds massive empire
      • Connects East to West
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    21. Great Athenian Philosophers
      • Socrates - Know thyself! - question everything - only the pursuit of goodness brings happiness.
      • Plato - The Academy - the world of the FORMS - The Republic à philosopher-king
      • Aristotle - the Lyceum - “Golden Mean” [everything in moderation] - Logic - Scientific method.
    22. Socrates
      • He used the method of rational debate to seek essential definitions of truth, beauty, justice, goodness, and virtue.
      • Basic views of western philosophy
      • “The unexamined life is not worth living”
      • He was executed by his fellow Athenians for impiety and for corrupting the young.
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    24. Plato
      • Student of Socrates
      • The Allegory of the Cave & The Republic
      • Disliked democracy (why?)
      • Believed men and women should have equal access to positions.
    25. Aristotle
      • Student of Plato
      • Tutored Alexander the Great
      • Good man-good life
      • Moderation in all things
      • Wrote Politics - polis
      • Systemization of knowledge
      • Theories lasted until the 17th century

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