-CLASSICAL SOCIETY YET DIFFERENT FROM OTHER CLASSICALS

-CRETE IS CENTRE OF MEDITERRANEAN COMMERCE

-2200-1450 BCE

-1100-800 BCE END OF MINONAN SOCIETY

-CHAOS BEGINS IN THIS REGION

-SOPHISTICATED SOCIETY

-IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF LOCATION (CLOSE TO MOUTH OF NILE)

-EASY CONTACT WITH OTHER REGIONS

-EGYPTIANS, MESOPOTAMIANS, PHOENICIANS

-RICH

-TRADE BASED

-ELABORATE TEMPLES

-MANY NATURAL DISATERS

-INDO EUROPEANS

-BUILD FROM THE MINOANS

-BUILD FORTS

-DOMINATED BY WARRIOR CHIEFS

-TROJAN WAR TAKES PLACE ON CRETE AFTER THE MYCENAEANS COME TO ISLAND

-NO LONG TERM STABILITY

-A CITY/STATE

-800 BCE ONWARDS

-LIVELY URBAN AREA & INFLUENCE OVER SURROUNDING AREAS, INCLUDING AGRICULTURE (LEVY TAXES, OWNERSHIP)

-SOME HAD MONARCHIES

-MOST HAD ELITES RUNNING SOCIETY

-EMPHASIS ON VIRTUE & RESPONSIBILITY (SIMILAR TO CONFUSCIUS)

-CHINA HAD A CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT

-GREECE WAS MORE INDIVIDUALIZED

(BELIEVED THE ROLE OF THE IND WAS GREATER)

1. SPARTA

2. ATHENS

-EXTENDS CONTROL OVER PELOPONNESUS

[700-600 BCE]

-LABELS NEIGHBORING PEOPLE HELOTS

-NOT SLAVES YET NOT FREE

-CAN FORM FAMILIES

-PRODUCE FOR THE SPARTANS

-10 HELOTS TO 1 SPARTAN

-CAUSED A FEAR OF REBELLION

-ALL SPARTANS ARE EQUAL

-NO DISPLAY OF WEALTH

-4TH C BCE MORE WEALTH WAS ACCUMULATED AND DISPLAYED

-ALL BOYS LEAVE HOME AT AGE 7 FOR MILITARY SCHOOL OR ACADEMY

-AT AGE 20 THEY JOIN THE MILITARY FORCES

-VIGORUS EXERCISE PROGRAM FOR GIRLS IN ORDER TO PRODUCE STRONG CHILDREN

-MARRIED BETWEEN 18 AND 20 BUT DID NOT LIVE TOGETHER UNTIL AGE 30

-DEMOCRACY IF YOU WERE A FREE MALE

-7TH C BCE LAND OWNING ARISTOCRACY EXPANDED HOLDINGS

- SMALLER LAND OWNERS UNHAPPY

-LEADS REFORM

-PREVENTS CIVIL WAR

-NO REDISTRIBUTION

-ALL DEBTS OF POOR ARE CANCELLED

-NO MORE SLAVES B/C OF DEBT

-ALL SLAVES BY DEBT ARE FREED

[LATE 8-6THC BCE]

GREECE SOCIETY EXPANDS TO OVER 400 COLONIES

-PROVIDES GREEKS WITH AGRICULTURE

-PROVIDES RAW MATERIALS (METALS)

-STILL NO CENTRALIZED GREECE EMPIRE

1. PERSIAN WARS

2. PELOPONNESIAN WAR

[500-479 BCE]

-CO-OPERATED VS ACHAMENID EMPIRE

-STATES COME TOGETHER -GREEKS WIN

[431-404 BCE]

-POWER OF ATHENS W/I DELIAN LEAGUE

-WAR AMONG GREEKS THEMSELVES

-BECUASE OF STRENGTH OF INDIVIDUAL POLIS THERE WILL NEVER BE A UNIFIED EMPIRE

-GROUP OF POLIES

-LEADER IN DELIAN IS ATHENS

-ALL OTHER POLIS PROVIDE MONEY

-NO WAR SO ATHENS POCKETS ALL THE MONEY AND BECOMES EXTREMELY WEALTHY

-NON-ATHENIANS BECOME UPSET AT ATHENS WEALTH CUASING THE PELOPONNEISAN WAR

-ATHENS & ALLIES VS SPARTA & ALLIES

-ATHENS MASSACURES ALL MILITARY AGE MEN ON THE ISLAND

-SELLS ALL WMN & CHILDREN INTO SLAVERY

-404 SPARTA GETS ATHENS TO SURRENDER UNCONDITIONALLY

-FOLLOWING LAST WAR IS A PERIOD OF INSTABILITY CONCERNING POWERS TO BE

-NORTH OF ATHENS & SPARTA

-7TH C BCE GREEK IDEA INFLUENCE IN MACEDON

[359-336 BCE]

-HUGE TRANSFORMATION

-BUILDS LARGE MILITARY

-TAKES OVER POWER OF MACEDON

-353 MOVES INTO GREECE

-338 HAS ALL OF GREECE UNDER HIS CONTROL

-ASSISSINATED IN 336

-KING PHILIP II SON

-TAKES OVER AT AGE 20

-GREAT MILITARY (48K NEW)

-INVADES PERSIA 333 BCE

-BURNS IT TO THE GROUND

-INFLUENCED BY GREEK THOUGHT

-DIFFER FROM GREEK BECAUSE HE WANTS A CENTRALIZED EMPIRE

-DIES JUNE 323 BCE

-AFTER DEATH OF ATG, 3 OF HIS GENERALS DIVIDE THE TERRITORY

-ANTIGONUS (ANTIGONOID EMPIRE)

-PTOLEMY (PTOLEMAIC EMPIRE)

-SELECUS (SELECUID EMPIRE)

-POLIS HAS DIFFICULTY MAINTAINING CONTROL -ATHENS AND CORINTH THRIVE ECONOMICALLY BECAUSE OF TRADE

-ESTABLISHMENT OF MONOPLOIES

(TEXTILES, SALTS, BEER BREWING)

-GREEK CULTURE IN AI KHANUM (PRESENT DAY AFGAHANASTAN)

-INDIVIDUAL GREEK KINGDOM A LONG DISTANCE FROM GREECE

-FALLS TO ROMANS

-MANY GREEK IDEAS TRANSFER INTO ROMAN EMPIRE

-DIFFERENT STYLE OF ORGANIZATION (POLEIS)

-LIMITATIONS OF CITY/STATES

-ADVANTAGES OF EMPIRES

-HELLENISTIC ERA

-GREEK CULTURE CONTINUES