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What do all these images have in common?
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Where is it exactly?
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Ancient Greece: Geography
• Southeastern Europe• Mountainous and rugged terrain• Surrounded by bodies of water• Greeks referred to their land as Hellas and to
themselves as Hellenes• Geography led to political fragmentation…
city-states!
Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greece: History
• Polis=city-state (Athens, Sparta, and many, many more)
• Made up of a city and its surrounding countryside• Between 50 and 500 square miles of territory• Often home to fewer than 20,000 people• Peaked around 500 BC• Even though the city-states often fought with each
other, politics, the arts and philosophy flourished…mainly in Athens!
Forms of Government
• Monarchy: rule by one• Aristocracy: rule by the nobility• Oligarchy: rule by the few• Democracy: rule by the people (free men)
which only consisted of about 1/5 of Athens population!!!
A Greek Theatre
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Parthenon
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