Persian War
Who won the Greco-Persian War?
The Egyptians made statues, and Athenians used this to inspire their creations with clay. The design of pottery changed over time to more modern looks. Phidias was the sculptor for the frieze on the Parthenon.
What is Greek Sculpture?
The Peloponnesian League. Not the Delian League.
Who won the Peloponessian War?
Macedonia
Where was Alexander the Great born?
Athens made invented this type of government and it is used all around the world - especially in the United States.
Democracy
The Persian army made a bridge of boats across the Hellespont
What happened during the Battle of Thermopylae?
Greeks built temples to honor their gods and goddesses. The temples had the pediment(slanted roof that was the shape of a triangle), the frieze(sculptures that lined the top) and metopes(the sculptures themselves).
What is Greek Architecture?
Athens formed the Delian League, which consisted of Athens and a few more city-states. Athens promised them that for their money, Athens would take care of trade and they would have military advantages. Sparta did not join. Later, Athens used monkey to rebuild it's city, and the city-states did not like it. Some of the turned to Sparta, which formed another league.
Why did the war start?
Alexandria
Greeks brought sculpture and pillars to their temples when they worked, and such pillars are found in buildings around the world.
Greek Architecture.
Xerxes(leader of Persian Warriors) frightened the Athenians, who scurried to leave. The few soldiers that were left died and Xerxes burned Athens to the ground. Themistocles tricked Xerxes into coming into a trap and then the Athenian soldiers rammed into the Persian boats.
Greeks believed that Gods and Goddesses took care of everything in their life. They believed that the gods were not perfect and that they lived on Mount Olympus. Some examples of the Gods are Zeus(sky), Demeter(plants and agriculture), Poseidon(the sea), Hades(the Underworld), and Hestia(the family hearth).
What is Greek Religion?
Sparta took it's troops and marched into Athens. Sparta burned some farmland, but eventually had to go back home for food.
What was the siege of Athens?
He had qualities that were good and bad. He was a good leader, but he wasn't always nice, for example.
Was Alexander the great really that great?
The Greeks started the Olympics, which originated in Athens. Some of the sports were footraces, javelin, long jump, and wrestling.
Greek Sports
This was the last battle in the Greco-Persian War. Both Athens and Sparta came together and fought off the Persians, and they didn't come back.
What was the Battle of Plataea?
Greeks watched plays for entertainment. Only males could participate, and so they used masks that covered their face to portray feelings and different characters. The theater could hold a lot of people, and it was shaped in a semi-circle. The plays were either comedy(which usually made fun of politics), or tragedy(a story about someone, sort of like an Epic Poem, someone usually dies).
What is Greek Drama?
In the second year of war, a deadly disease that spread quickly because every person of Athens was in the city, scrunched together(no social distance there!). The sickness took out 25% of Athens population.
What was the Plague of Athens?
Alexander first conquered the Greek city states.
What did Alexander the Great first conquer?
Some of the things Greeks thought about are still used today. Some philosophers thought of mathematics, some thought of astronomy, and some thought of geography.
Greek Philosophy
Athens won this battle alone because Sparta was celebrating a religious festival. This was the first battle in the Greco - Persian War
What is the Battle of Marathon?
Someone who thinks deeply about the world and the meaning of life. Socrates was a famous one who taught his students by making them think about what they have learned.
What is a philosopher?
Athens decided to attack Sicily, and made plans to attack the Spartans on both sides. A spy, a traitor to Athens, told the Spartans, and the attack was spoiled.
What happened when Athens decided to attack Sicily?
The empire stretched from Macedonia to Egypt and and from Greece to part of India.
How big was Alexander the Greats empire?
Greeks got their sculpture ideas from Egyptians, and people today still use the same tactics and inspiration.
Greek Art