Greek Civilization
* 2. The Land Located in Europe in the A egean Sea * The first great civilization in Greece and Crete3. Brief History of Greece Around 1400It lasted roughly from 2000 BCE until 1400 BCE. was the Minoan. BCE, the Mycenaean civilization supplanted the Minoan, and dominated Greece until about 1100 BCE, when barbarians known as Durians invaded. * 4. EXTEND EARLY BEGINING OF POLIS * 490 750-550 Age of Colonization c. 700 Homer 5. Greek Polis Time Line 479 Spartans 480 Xerxes invades Greece Athenians defeat Persians at Marathon 431 Start of 478-477 Formation of Delian League defeat Persians at Platea 413 Athenian defeat at SyracusePeloponnesian War * A community of citizens with distinctive A city state 6. What is Polis? customs, gods, and was also an object of intense religious-patriotic devotion the Greeks answer to the perennial conflict between an individual and the What are some poleis? Athens, Sparta, Thebes, Corinth, Argos,community The polis was an independent, self-governing city of between 50,000Delphi. Several dozen polises (Greek “poleis”) dotted the Greekand 300,000 people. In each polis, politics, religion, and social life were closelycountryside intertwined. * Starting around 800 BCE a7. Emergence of the Polis, or Greek City-State The Hellenicnew civilization, the Hellenic, became dominant in Greece. Thiscivilization was composed of two strands, the Dorian and the Ionian. civilization gave rise to a new form of social/political organization: the polis. * 8. Major Polis * Two types of government were used in the Greek9. Types of Government The The Dorians generally had an oligarchic form of government. Polises. The Ionians developed the firstGreek word oligarchy means rule by the few. Democracy means rule by the people.democratic form of government. * Generally speaking, the Dorians depended upon10. Sparta and Athens The two primaryagriculture, while the Ionians were seafarers