Ancient Greece

• Geography
  
  • ​Mediterranean Sea
    
  • Athens
    
  • Peloponnesian Peninsula
    
  • Sparta
  • How the geography (mountainous terrain, access to Mediterranean Sea lead to organization of City-States and development of Maritime Trade
    

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• Political Structure
  
  • ​polis in Greek city-states
    
  • idea of citizenship
    
  • civic participation
    
  • rule of law
    
  • direct democracy
    
  • oligarchy
    

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• Economy
  
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• Cultural structures
  
  • ​polytheistic religion
    
  • Philosophers:
    
    • ​Socrates
      
    • Plato
      
    • Aristotle
    • Ideas spread through writing & teaching
  • Greek architecture 
    • Parthenon
    • the Acropolis
• Athens & Sparta
  
  • status of women
    
  • approach to education
    
  • type of government
    
  • practice of slavery 
  • Causes / Consequences of Persian Wars 
    
    • ​role of Athens
      
    • Cooperation with Sparta
      
    
    
• Alexander the Great
  • conquests spread Hellenistic (Greek) culture