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World History: Grade 9 Unit 4.5 Giant Empires of Afroeurasia 300 BCE – 500 CE The Greek City States to Alexander and the Hellenistic Era c. 1600 BCE - 133 BCE Wednesday, March 25, 15
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World History: Grade 9
Unit 4.5 Giant Empires of Afroeurasia 300 BCE – 500 CEThe Greek City States to Alexander and the Hellenistic Era
c. 1600 BCE - 133 BCE
Wednesday, March 25, 15
Unit 4.5 Giant Empires of Afroeurasia: The Ancient Greeks M.T. Donkin
Unit Objectives: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the subject by answering a series of questions on Afroeurasian history between 300 BCE and 500 CE. 2. Categorize and record information about Afroeurasia between 300 BCE and 500 CE. 3. Demonstrate understanding of the historical significance of states during Big Era Four.
MTP: 1. Review of the Greek City States 2. Classical Greece 3. Classical Greek Culture 4. Alexander and the Hellenistic Era 5. What’s due?
Mar 2015 75 min.
Wednesday, March 25, 15
• Ancient Greek culture first emerged around 16000 B.C.E. in Mycenae, which developed a powerful military and participated in a wide trading network.
• Over the next thousand years, Greek society organized itself into city-states- the most famous of which were Athens and Sparta - that served the political, religious, and cultural life.
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1. Review of the Greek City States
Wednesday, March 25, 15
• Which was the first Greek state?• Mycenae (1600 B.C.E. to 1100 B.C.E)• The Mycenaean Greeks were part of the Indo-European family of peoples who spread into
Europe and Asia.• By 1300 BCE, states were fighting one another, major earthquakes caused widespread
destruction, and new invaders from the north would take over. Thus lead to the Dark Age.• ...
1. Review of the Greek City States
Wednesday, March 25, 15
• During the Dark Age (1100 BCE to 750 BCE) population and food production declined. Very few records of what happened exist. By 850 BCE a new Greece began to form:• Greeks left the mainland and sailed to Asia Minor, called Ionia.• The Aeolian Greeks settled in Lesbos.• The Dorians setup in Peloponnese and Aegean Islands.• Would use iron to produce more food and adopted the Phoenician alphabet.
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1. Review of the Greek City States
Wednesday, March 25, 15
• Greek villages gradually expanded and became independent city-states (polis). The two most famous city-states were Sparta and Athens, whose rivalry would eventually lead to war.
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1. Review of the Greek City States
Wednesday, March 25, 15
