Basic Places to know (Hellenistic World)

Greece

Country in modern-day Southeastern Europe.

Mainland Greece

Land of Ancient Greece minus its islands. It is bounded by the Aegean Sea to its east and the Mediterranean Sea to its south.

Where is Mainland Greece on this Map?

What are the basic Sections of Mainland/Ancient Greece.

1. Northern Greece

2. Central Greece

3. Southern Greece = the Peloponnese

   a. = “the island (nesos) of Pelops (a mythic Greek hero)”

Regions in Northern Greece

In Northern Greece: Thessaly, Epirus, Macedonia (or Macedon)

Regions in Central Greece

In Central Greece: Boeotia and Attica

Regions in Peloponnesus

In Peloponnese: Laconia

Basic Region outside of mainland Greece (Ionia)

Western Coast of modern-day Turkey.

Basic Regions outside of mainland Greece (Anatolia or Asia Minor)

Name for Mordor’s day Turkey used by modern scholars of Ancient Greece

Basic region outside of mainland Greece(Thrace)

Non-Greek region (modern-day Bulgaria) northeast of Greece

Greek Islands to know

1. Euboea

2. Rhodes

3. Cyprus

Basic Ancient cities to know (Northern Greece)

In northern Greece: in Macedonia: Aegae (modern Vergina), Pella

Basic Ancient cities to know (Central Greece)

In central Greece:

1. Delphi

2. in Boeotia: Thebes, Plataea, Chaeronea

3. in Attica: Athens

Basic Ancient cities to know (Peloponnese)

1. At isthmus of Corinth: Corinth

2. in Laconia: Sparta

Basic Ancient cities to know (Ionia)

In Ionia: Troy and Miletus

Ancient Near East (ANE)

1 Anatolia/Asia Minor

a) Lydia= non-Greek region in Western Anatolia

b) Sardis = Capital city of Lydia

Ancient Near East (ANE)(Mesopotamia)

a. = Modern day Iraq and Syria

b. = “land between [Tigris/Euphrates] rivers” in Greek

c. Assyria = northers Mesopotamia

d. Babylon = city in southern Mesopotamia