https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi Vaishnavi Kasabwala en-us 2016-09-07 13:01:07 UTC 2026-03-11 20:38:21 UTC hello@padlet.com 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122397188          Greece had made many influences on our society today. Much of Western art is influenced by the realism and artistic idea of Classical Greek art. Today's democratic systems of government are largely based of the original ideas of Greece.]]> 2016-09-08 12:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122397188 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122408188 2016-09-08 13:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122408188 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122408678

Early Greece's geography was made up of a very mountainous terrain and had numerous islands. These mountains had isolated Greece and cause different Greek communities to grow and develop in different ways. 

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The first Greek state had been called Mycenae. Mycenae was a fortified state  had had flourished between 1600 and 1100 B.C. Mycenae was a monarchy. When Mycenae began to collapse populations decrease as well as food supplies, causing the Dark Age.

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Near the end of the Dark Age Homer's poetry became popular. The Iliad and theOdyssey were passed down from generation to generation.

]]> 2016-09-08 13:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122409751 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122639311 Sparta was an oligarchy lead by 2 kings, it was very organized and controlled. Male spent most of their lives in the military of training for it. Because most men were in the army and the wives were left at home, Spartan women had many freedoms and greater power in the household. Spartans wanted to maintain their way of life, so they had frowned upon people from other parts of Greece spreading new ideas and beliefs throughout sparta.]]> 2016-09-09 03:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122639311 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122639722 Athens was an oligarchy ruled by its aristocrats. At the end of 1700 B.C. many Athen Farmers were sold into slavery because they couldn't pay their debts back. In 594 B.C. Athens had name Solon, a powerful aristocrat, their ruler. He canceled the land debt and freed the slaves. Because this did not solve problems, Cleisthenes created a new council and created the Athenian Democracy. ]]> 2016-09-09 03:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122639722 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122640344 Athens had defeated the Persians and took leadership over Greece. Democracy began to become widespread. The Greek world was divided into the Athenian and the Spartan Empires who had fought leading to the destruction of Athens.]]> 2016-09-09 04:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122640344 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122641046 Greek art was concerned with expressing external ideals instead of internal. Usually the subject matter was a person. In architecture the most important structures were the temples to the gods. Greek sculptures were meant to depict ideal beauty instead of realism.]]> 2016-09-09 04:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122641046 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122641404 Plays were presented outdoors and showed greek tragedies. They were usually wrote in trilogies building around a common theme.]]> 2016-09-09 04:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122641404 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122641624 Greek Philosophers focused  on critical and rational thought about the nature of the universe. Socrates was a famous philosopher who used his unique methods to teach. Plato was his student and was considered to be the greatest philosopher of the Western civilization. Plato wrote down his ideas about government and equal rights. Aristotle wrote about many subjects and found 3 good forms of government.]]> 2016-09-09 04:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122641624 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122643315 Alexander had inherited his throne of Macedonia from his father who had conquered Greece and united the countries. Alexander had taken over the Persian Empire, Asia Minor, and modern-day Pakistan. He had died from wounds, fever, and from drinking too much alcohol.]]> 2016-09-09 04:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122643315 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122644036

The Hellenistic Era was created by Alexander the Great.

The kingdom Alexander had created had fallen apart after his death.

The kingdom has separated becoming Macedonia, Syria, Asia Minor, and Egypt. 

Hellenistic culture had many accomplishments and was spread throughout the cities.

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The book]]> 2016-09-09 05:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122645760 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122645859 Judaism was the main religion in Roman, but once Jesus began to preach throughout Judea and had gained followers. Christianity started as a religious movement within Judaism. As Jesus, his apostles, and his followers traveled through the kingdoms they had spread their religion. Because of this many of the major cities had converted to Christianity.]]> 2016-09-09 05:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122645859 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122646360 2016-09-09 05:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122646360 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122646657 2016-09-09 05:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122646657 87471 https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122646765 2016-09-09 05:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/87471/nmt80i27fnqi/wish/122646765