Warm up

How did the Rulers of China view the role of the citizen?

Brief history of the cold war

• Conference of Yalta– At the end of WWII, the big 3 meet

• Roosevelt (US), Churchill (Eng), Stalin Russia

– They make a plan for Europe after the war• Russia decides to take Poland and other

countries. – USSR formed

• Arms race started by dropping the Bomb– Enola Gay- Little boy, Fat man

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aquhfNJVMic

Today

• The beginnings of Democracy– What has changed?

• Begin analyzing a secondary source.

Brain Storm

• Given the differences between the current American Democracy and that of ancient Athens, persuade the reader which do you feel is the better choice for government? Select evidence from the text

• Topic sentence – Main idea– Includes restatement of prompt – And three reasons to support

Dates

Ancient Greece

Bronze Age Civilizations

• Minoans• 2000-1400 BC• Crete

Bronze Age Civilizations

• Mycenaens• 1600-1200 BC • Mainland Greece

Bronze Age Civilizations

• Mycenaens• The Heroic Age • The Trojan War

The Dark Ages

• Dorians• 1150-750 BC• Homer

Hellenic Greece

• Rise of City-States 800-400 BC• Persian Wars 499-470’s BC• Golden Age of Athens 460’s-400 BC• Peloponnesian Wars 431-405 BC

Hellenistic Greece

• 400BC-155 BC• The Greek Empire

Hellenistic Greece

• Macedonia• 359BC-329 BC• Philip II• Alexander the Great

Hellenistic Greece

• Decline, Emergence of Rome• c150BC• Roman power consolidated• 133BC