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Early People of the Aegean

The Rise of Greek City-States
The Glory That Was Greece
Alexander and the Hellenistic
Age
-Minoans: earliest civilization in region
-Mycenaeans: another civilization of sea traders
-Both civilization adapted Egyptian and Mesopotamian
ideas
-Greeks evolved new city-state, the Polis
-Acropolis: high city for gods
-Governing the city states
-Monarchy
-Aristocracy
-ligarchy
-!parta and Athens: Greek "ity-states
-#emocracy
-$ictory and #efeat in the Greek %orld
-Pericles: Greek statesman
-#irect #emocracy
-!ocrates, Plato, and Aristotle developed new ideas a&o't
tr'th, reason, ('stice, and government
-People developed new styles of art and architect're that
reflected those ideas
-Philosophers, poets, and dramatists set the standard for
classic style
-)ing Phillip of Macedonia &'ilt a great army and took
control of Greece
-Ale*ander +,he Great- took the throne ne*t
-Greek c'lt're &lended with Persian, Egyptian, and .ndian
to create /ellenistic civilization
-Greek ideas came to dominate the Medditerranean and
infl'enced the civilizations of 0ome and %estern E'rope