4th grade Social Studies - Ch 8 Ancient Greece

1. Where in Ancient Greece they lived

2. What they did for a living

3. how they met their everyday needs

4. the development of maritime trade

What are three ways the mountains and sea affected people of ancient Greece?

Area of land, surounded by water on three sides

What is a peninsula?

Balkan Peninsula

The mainland of ancient Greece was on the ________.

City states

At its peak, ancient Greece included hundreds of ___________.

A self-governing region (called a state) consisting of a city and surrounding territory

What is a city-state?

Across the Mediterranean coast of Europe, Asia, and Africa

What were the city states spread across?

A: Balkan Peninsula

B: Athens

C: Peloponnesian Peninsula

D: Mediterranean Sea

E: Sparta

Label the geographic features of Ancient Greece on the map.

The challenging terrain of the mountains made travel very difficult and time-consuming

How did mountains separate settlement in ancient Greece from each other?

These communities were known as city states

As a result of its mountainous, geography in Greece developed a collection of independent communities called what

In values between mountains or on coastal Plains

Where were most city states located?

It’s own government and its own army

Each city state had what

A distinct culture in a way of doing things

Each city state also had what

Fertile soil

Because of its mountains, ancient Greece had limited flatland and what performing

20%

Only about how many percent of Greek land was suitable for coming

Rivers

They were not many what that could used to be water the farms

Sea

To overcome this problem, may Greeks return to the what

Maritime trade rates for more food

They developed a network of what

Athens and Sparta

Two Greek settlements became especially successful _____________________________

City state

Athens and Sparta Developed into ancient Greek what

Ancient Greece

They became too powerful rivals with what

Falcon Peninsula

Aven was located on the what

Mediterranean Sea

It the what

Good farmland

It had little white

PELOPONNESIAN PENINSULA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where was Sparta located?

Mountains

It was on a land plane, surrounded by what?

Most fertile soul

Sparta enjoyed some of the what in Greece

Seven

In Spartan Society, boys change the Warriors after they turned what age

Military training rather than the art of sciences

Their education was focused on what rather than what?

Their future role as mothers a warrior

Spartan girls were given a military education as well, primarily because of what

Warriors

They were not allowed to grow up to be what themselves

The right to own property and speak in public

Spartan woman had more rights such as the what

Vote

However, neither society allowed doing the right to what

Drama, math, music, reading, and writing.

Athenian. Boys studied what?

Military school

At age 18, they attended two years of what

Enslaved people

Athens also had what but they were not treated as poorly as those in Sparta

Cooks, craftworkers, and attendance to slaveholders in battle.

Enslaved people work a wide range of jobs, including

Freedom

Sometimes it’s like people in Athens were able to buy their what

OLIGARCHIES

Other governments, including Sparta became what

Democracy

However, Athens developed a very different form of government what

POLIS means city in the Greek language, but it also refers to all citizens as a whole.

What does the word POLIS mean

Athens used the type of democracy known as direct democracy in a direct democracy, citizens vote directly and all decisions and laws instead of representatives voting for them

What is direct democracy?

A form of government and which authority over the people is retained through ruling family

What does monarchy mean?

A form of government in which power is held by a small group of people

What is OLIGARCHY mean

A form of government in which the people rule either directly or through elected representatives

What does democracy mean?

Laws

The assembly debated and voted on what

Athenian

The assembly and council gave regular citizens and unusual amount of power in the what government

Little power

Sparta government also included in assembly, but the assembly had very what power

Real power

Smartest government was an OLIGARCHY – only a few people had what power in the government

Of or related to laws or lawmaking – group of people gathered together for a specific purpose

What does legislative assembly mean?

Greek city states

The Persian empire was expanding and wanted to control what city states

Greek city states

Athens and Sparta Adelaide with each other and other what city state states

Alliance

They’re what helped them when the Persian war

A messenger to run back to Athens and share the good news

After victory, the Athenian army sent what to run back to what to share the what

25 mile run for what’s the present Day race cause a marathon?

It was roughly how many mile run for which the present day calls or what?

Worshiping more than one god

What is polycystic mean?

MYTH

The ancient Greeks created many stories about their gods. What were these stories called?

A story about the extraordinary, especially a god , that supports or explained to practice, belief, or natural phenomenon

What is a myth?

Actions and emotions

The ancient Greeks believed that the gods were like humans in their what

Fought with each other, we’re sometimes jealousy of each other, and even play tricks on each other

Greek mythology tells us how the god with each other, or sometimes what of each other, and even played what on each other

The study of ideas about truth, right, and wrong and the nature meaning of life

What does philosophy mean?

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

Who are three of the most famous Greek philosophers ever?

Question the world around them

Socrates, inspires thinkers and scientist to what?

Academy of Athens

Plato made a major contribution to education by creating the first institution for higher learning in the western world

In ordered system of reasoning that formed the basis of logic and western thought

Aristotle developed what

The Acropolis and the Parthenon

World War II examples of Greek architecture

The Parthenon

What is the most famous building on the Acropolis of Athens?

In the 400s BCE as a temple to honor Athena

When was it built?

Characteristics of or relating to an ancient Greek civilization after Alexander, the great

What does Hellenistic mean?

Alexander, the great

Who became the ruler of all grease?

20 years old

How old was Alexander when he became king

Greek city states

When he came to power, Alexander controlled all the what

Europe, Asia, and Africa

Where did the Empire control land?

His empire fell apart

After Alexander, the great death, what happened to his empire?

Greek culture spread throughout much of the ancient world

Even so, because of the best empire he created, what happened?

The Hellenistic period

The 200 years between Alexander’s death and the rise of the Roman empire are known as a what period