(Ancient) Greece is the Word
An introduction to a great civilization
The world's greatest civilizations were all located on rivers.
Great civilizations/ Key river
Mesopotamia/ Tigris and Euphrates river
Egypt/ Nile river
India/ Indus river
China/ Huang He river
Greece's Geography
- Note the significance of Greece's location.
- Describe Greece's topography
Greece is a mountainous, peninsula on the Mediterranean sea.
- Capital of Greece is Athena/ Athens
- Athens/ Athena lived by the idea of the city-state
Mediterranean Sea
Terra - Earth
Mediterranean means middle of the earth
A closer look
- What bodies of earth surround Greece?
The Adriatic sea is on the west shore and the Aegean sea is on the east shore.
- What large island is south/southeast?
Crete is the large island south/southeast of Greece.
- Describe where Athens and Sparta are located relating to sea, and to each other.
Sparta is more inland and closer to the Adriatic sea, while Athens is on the coast of the Aegean sea.
We most likely would be more advanced if there wasn't those 1,000 years of stupidity where the Romans copied everything the Greeks had done.
Greek Mythology
- Trojan war fought in Troy
- Odyssey and Iliad are poems about the war
- The Iliad was the story of the Trojan war
- The Odyssey is the story of Odysseus trying to get home after the Trojan war
- Both were written in Rhyme and Rhythm
- They were written by Homer
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