Ancient Greece PowerPoint and Guided Notes

Description

This 214 slide PowerPoint covers material for a complete unit on Ancient Greece from the Early Greeks through Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Period.

Topics include:
– Geography of Greece and how it impacted the Greek civilizations
– Early Greeks (Minoans, Mycenaeans, Dorians)
– Establishment of city-states (similarities and differences, citizenship, slavery, government, religion, Olympic Games, trade, Megara, Corinth, Argos, Thebes)
– Sparta (location, lack of written records from Spartans, helots, perioeci, revolt, military society, life of male and female Spartans, government, characteristics, peak and decline)
– Athens (location, metics, life as an Athenian, Iliad and Odyssey, democracy, Draco, Solon, Cleisthenes)
– Events leading to the Persian Wars
– Warfare during this time (equipment of Greek hoplites and Persian archers, phalanx, trireme)
– Herodotus
– Battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea
– Rise of the Delian League
– Golden Age of Athens (Pericles, Parthenon, pottery, sculpting, drama and theater, and philosophy – Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)
– Peloponnesian League
– Thucydides
– Causes of the Peloponnesian War
– Athens’ strategy and the plague
– How Sparta won
– Effects of the Peloponnesian War
– After the war
– King Philip II and Macedonia (Corinth League, assassination)
– Alexander the Great (accomplishments, end of Persian Empire, his empire, his death, division of his empire)
– Hellenistic Culture (what it is, Alexandria, Pharos of Alexandria, Colossus of Rhodes, Nike of Samothrace, Diogenes, Epicurus, Zeno, Aristarchus, Eratosthenes, Euclid, Archimedes)

What’s included in the download:
*Editable PowerPoint presentation (214 slides, text is all editable, graphics are not editable)
*PDF Guided Notes (21 pages, not editable)
*PDF Guided Notes key (21 pages, not editable)
*Editable Guided Notes (21 pages, created in PowerPoint without the fancy clip art and fonts)

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