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    The rugged mountains and lack of major rivers divided ancient Greece into isolated city-states. However, the sea unified Greece by facilitating trade and cultural exchange. The Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet and use of coins, which advanced Greek culture by enabling record-keeping, literature, and a strong economy built on maritime trade of goods like olive oil, wine, and pottery.

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    The rugged mountains and lack of major rivers divided ancient Greece into isolated city-states. However, the sea unified Greece by facilitating trade and cultural exchange. The Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet and use of coins, which advanced Greek culture by enabling record-keeping, literature, and a strong economy built on maritime trade of goods like olive oil, wine, and pottery.

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    Chapter 7.

    1
    Ancient Greece
    Goal: To understand how
    the physical geography of
    Greece influenced the
    culture of the Ancient
    Greeks
    .
    Chapter 7.1 Objectives
    • 7.1 Objectives • Essential Question for
    chapter 7:
    • Describe the
    effect of • What factors shaped
    mountains on government in
    Greek life Greece?
    • What big ideas have we
    • Explain how the
    learned about so far in
    sea unified 7.1 that can help us to
    Greece and answer this question by
    brought new the end of the week?
    ideas • Land divided by mountains
    • Summarize the • Travel and trade by sea
    beginnings of • Use of alphabet and coins
    Greek culture
    Connect to what you know
     BEFORE YOU LEARNED (in 6th
    grade)
     The geography of China
    influenced the ancient cultures
    that developed there
     NOW YOU WILL LEARN
     The geography of Greece led to
    sea travel and trade, which
    helped to influence Greek
    culture.
    3 Key Questions
    How many Key Questions in 7.1?

     How did
    mountains
    effect life in
    Greece?
     How did the sea

    affect the
    economy of
    Greece?
     How did trade

    influence Greek
    culture?
    Vocabulary
    Phoenicians
    • an early Greek Civilization founded in 2500 BC,
    • they among the most successful traders of their time.
    • Created the first alphabet
    Vocabulary
     Peninsula

    • A piece of land that sticks out into a body of water


    • surrounded by water on 3 sides
    Vocabulary
    Isthmus

    A thin strip of land connecting two large areas


    across a body of water
    Vocabulary
    Peloponnesus

    A large peninsula linked to the northern territory of


    Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth.
    Vocabulary
    1. peninsula- body of land nearly
    surrounded by water

    2. Peloponnesus- peninsula that


    forms the southern part of Greece

    3. isthmus- strips of land that


    connects to landmasses

    4. Phoenicians- people of
    southwest Asia who began to
    trade around 1100 BC and from
    who the Greeks got the idea for
    their alphabet.
    Vocabulary
     5. alphabet-
     system of symbols representing
    sounds

     6. mainland-
     main part of a country or territory

     7. rugged-
     having a rough, jagged, or uneven
    surface

     8. founded-
     created or established

     9. collapsed-
    Geography Shapes Ancient Greek Life

    Landscape and Climate

    Greece is Characterized by
    mountains and rocky rugged land
    with no major rivers

    Difficult to travel
    Isolated Cities
    Difficult to unite under one
    government

    Few major resources


    Need to trade for resources

    Warm climate
    Encouraged outdoor life.
    Athletics

    What does this lead to?


    Geography Shapes Ancient Greek Life

    Why is so much land


    used for grazing?

    Too rocky or infertile


    for crops
    Geography Shapes Ancient Greek Life

    Agriculture
     Many parts of the land are rocky.
     Fewer people could own enough

    farm land to support themselves.


     These people could afford to buy

    armor and defend their homeland.


     What effect did this have on society?
     LANDOWNERS had a higher place in

    society than merchants or poor


    people who could not fight in the
    military or grow their own food.
     What did many people do in order

    to become land owners when land


    for farming was scarce where they
    lived?
     They searched out and colonized

    other areas around them that had


    farm land
    Geography Shapes Ancient Greek Life
     Resources- Greece also
    did not have many natural
    resources like:
     Precious metals to make
    armor, weapons and tools
     How did they have to make
    up for this?
     Without a lot of farm land,
    Greece traded the few
    resources they did have
    like stone for building and
    let people use their
    harbors to trade for goods.
    Trade Helps Greece Prosper
     How did the geography
    of Greece make trade
    easier if the land made
    it hard to travel?
     Highways of water
    linked most parts of
    Greece
     On these waters, they
    developed good ships
    for trading and war
     What did they trade
    that they had a surplus
    of? :
     Stone, olive oil, wine,
    wool, and pottery for
    grain and wheat.
    Sea Trade
    • How might the position of Greece help trade?

    • Central location and seafaring culture is


    perfect for trading.
    The Earliest Greeks

     The Mycenaeans were traders and became


    very good at it which made them very rich
    with luxury items like expensive houses and
    gold cups. Their civilization fell around
    1200 BC because of invaders.
    The Earliest Greeks

     The Mycenaeans
    ◦ Lived on the Peloponnesus
    ◦ Known for trading and their wealth (gold, jewelry, etc.)
    ◦ Their civilization fell c.1200 BC because of invaders
    What did the Greeks learn from the Phoenicians?
    Why
    Newdoes it matter?
    Advances in Greek Culture

     Trade
    ◦ Phoenicians
    ◦ Exchange goods and ideas
    ◦ Greeks borrow the ideas:
     the Phoenician alphabet
     a currency (money) using coins

     Why does this matter?


     Greek letters influence modern English
    New Advances in Greek Culture
     Phoenicians made an alphabet to use for
    writing. How did it help both them and the
    Greeks with trade?
     It gave them a way to record trade
    transactions clearly and quickly

     This alphabet helped create the coins for


    currency or money. Greek letters even
    influence the English alphabet we use today.

     How might this new ability to record language


    and hold value in coins for easy transfer help
    the Greeks in other ways?
     These skills helped the Greeks to develop
    literature, new ways of governing, and a
    strong economy.
    3 Key questions
    • How did the mountains affect life in Greece?

    • Greece was divided into regions; little farm land led to


    colonizing so they had better land to farm. They were
    forced to trade for things that the land could not give
    them and that they could not grow.

    • How did the sea affect the economy of Greece?


    • Building cities by the sea linked different parts of Greece;
    encouraged shipbuilding and navigation technology and
    trade for things they did not have. Greeks traded stone,
    fish, wine, wool, and pottery for other goods
    • How did trade influence Greek culture?
    • Greece came in contact with Phoenicians, adopting the
    alphabet and coins. Greeks became wealthy traders.

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