Before class on Monday/Tuesday, please read and take notes on pages 121 - 133 in your textbook (The Struggle of Greece and Persia, The Hellenistic Synthesis). There will be a reading quiz. Be sure to look out for the following details as you read!
- Events of the Persian Wars (pg. 121-122)
- What was the "Delian League"? (pg. 122)
- Athens and their navy (pg. 122)
- Socrates, who was he and why is he important? (pg. 123)
- Role of slaves, how they were treated in Greece (pg. 124)
- Position of women in Greek city states (pg. 124)
- Events of the Peloponnesian War - Sparta got help from WHO? (pg. 125)
- Macedonia: Phillip II and Alexander the Great as leaders (pg. 125-127)
- What did Alexander conquer? How fast? How did his empire fall? (pg. 127-128)
- What was the Hellenistic age? (pg. 128)
- City of Alexandria (pg. 129)