This document provides an overview of ancient Greek history and culture. It discusses the common Greek language known as Koine Greek, Greek city-state forms of government including monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny and democracy, and major Greek city-states like Athens. It also summarizes that during the Hellenistic Age, Greek culture spread through Alexander the Great's conquests and Greek artists blended classical and foreign influences, while great works of mathematics, science and philosophy were translated and kept in the Library of Alexandria.
This document provides an overview of ancient Greek history and culture. It discusses the common Greek language known as Koine Greek, Greek city-state forms of government including monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny and democracy, and major Greek city-states like Athens. It also summarizes that during the Hellenistic Age, Greek culture spread through Alexander the Great's conquests and Greek artists blended classical and foreign influences, while great works of mathematics, science and philosophy were translated and kept in the Library of Alexandria.
This document provides an overview of ancient Greek history and culture. It discusses the common Greek language known as Koine Greek, Greek city-state forms of government including monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny and democracy, and major Greek city-states like Athens. It also summarizes that during the Hellenistic Age, Greek culture spread through Alexander the Great's conquests and Greek artists blended classical and foreign influences, while great works of mathematics, science and philosophy were translated and kept in the Library of Alexandria.
1. common greek language" or as the greeks called it: he koiné dialekt
2. Doric 3. the Hellenistic Age (323-31 BCE)" The Peloponnesian War 431- 404 BCE Minoans 2000 BCE 4. Barley olives wheat 5. Ares, Demeter, Apollo, Hephaestus 6. Monarchy:which a King or a Prince holds the power OLIGARCHY:in which only a small group of members of the upper-classes TYRANNY:in which a powerful individual, usually a military commander took the power for himself and became what we today would call it a dictator. DEMOCRACY political leaders, made reforms, or changes, over time that allowed citizens some participation in the government 7. Babylon, Susa, and Persepolis 8. Hellenistic artists created many great works. These works blended the ideas of classical Greek artists and the influence of artists from newly conquered lands. The works of many great Greek mathematicians and scientists also sprang from this blending of culture and knowledge. Great works of math, science, philosophy, and history were translated into Greek and kept in the Library of Alexandria in Egypt 9. Some of the greek city- states, specially Athens, founded different colonies in places like in Magna-Graecia (today southern Italy), all around the Black Sea, the island of Cyprus, and today’s southern coasts of France and Spain.