1. Ancient Greece

2. ANCIENT DANGERS!!!
The world the ancient Greeks were filled with danger. Barbarians invaded constantly.
If you lived in Ancient Greece and were constantly invaded and in danger, what would you do to protect yourself?
Take 3 minutes and write down 3 solutions to the barbarian problem
Take time to share with a buddy your answers.
3. The Greek Solution!
The Greeks knew there was strength in numbers, so they joined together to protect themselves.
These groups of people developed into City States
A city state is a political unit made up of the city and all the surrounding areas
4. The City State Layout
Each City State was built on a high hill and was like a fortress
The hill was called an Acropolis
Acropolis means Top City in Greek
5. Life in the Acropolis
Around the Acropolis was the rest of the city
This included houses, markets, and farms
During wartimefarmers who lived outside the Acropolis would seek safety inside.
6. Brainstorm now: What are some advantages having your Acropolis on a high hill?
What are some advantages of living in a city state?
7. Advantages of City State
The Acropolis on a high hill helps ancient Greeks defend against invaders
People could gather in the city state and trade
Because each city state was isolated the people didnt think of themselves as citizens of Greece, but of their city state.
8. Colonies Spreading Greek Culture
In time city states set up colonies in other countries.
A colony is a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
Most of these colonies continued to keep in contact with their old city states through trade
This trade helped the city states get rich and spread Greek culture
9. Ticket Out
What is a city state?
Why did city states form?
What are you unsure about?
10. Homework
Answer these three questions
Define a city-state.
In what ways was the acropolis the center of the city-state?
How did colonies help keep Greek culture strong?
Read Pages 310-311 in our Social Studies book
11. City States: Athens VS. Sparta
12. Recap: What did we learn?
Warm up: If your city (Raleigh) was a city state what would it be like?

Yesterday we talked about how the Greeks formed city states for protection against invaders

13. Due to the city states being far apart many of them developed their own culture and government. 14. Two of the most famous were Athens and Sparta