Mister Richardson's
World History Class

OUTLINE

Chapter 2: The Greeks

I. Early Greek World

  1. Aegean Civilizations
    1. Crete (Minoans)
      • trade routes
      • Knossos
    2. Mycenae
      • Troy
      • Dorians
  2. The Greek Dark Ages
    1. Writings
      • the Iliad
      • the Odyssey
    2. Mythology
      • Zeus, Athena
      • the Olympiad

 

II. Greek City States (polis)

  1. Role of the City-State
  2. Government of the City-States
    1. monarchy
    2. oligarchy
    3. tyranny
    4. democracy
  3. Development of the City-States
    1. Sparta
      • Helots
      • Peloponnesian League
    2. Athens
      • archons
      • Solon

 

III. The Fateful Century

  1. The Persian Wars
    1. Darius
    2. Battle of Thermopylae
      • Xerxes
      • Hellespont Bridge
    3. Battle of Salamis Bay
      • Themistocles
      • triremes
  2. The Periclean Age
    1. Pericles
    2. Delian League
  3. The Peloponnesian War
    1. Athens
    2. Sparta

 

IV. Alexander's Empire

  1. Rise of Macedonia
    1. Philip II
    2. Alexander
  2. Conquests of Alexander the Great
    1. Persians
    2. Darius III
  3. Division of Alexander's Empire

 

V. Greek Culture

  1. The Essence of Greek Culture
    1. Hellenistic
  2. The Expression of Greek Culture
    1. Focus on Man
      • humanities
    2. Philosophy
      • Thales
      • Socrates
      • Plato
      • Aristotle
        • syllogisms
      • Stoics & Epicureans
    3. Science, Mathematics, Medicine
      • Pythagoras
      • Hippocrates
      • Euclid
    4. Literature
      • Herodotus
      • Thucydides
      • Sophocles
      • Aristophanes
    5. Art, Architecture
      • Parthenon
      • columns
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