Greece

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Essential Questions/Ideas of this unit: Is the Universe a Simulation? NYTimes media type="custom" key="11153604" Ancient Greece Resources [|Boise State]
 * How did the geography impact the development of Ancient Greece?
 * Identify the Great Greeks and their contributions.
 * Understand the chronology of the major phases of Greek history.
 * Was Alexander the Great great?
 * Some historians have stated that: Balance and harmony formed the very heart of Greek culture and Greek culture formed the very heart of American culture. Please evaluate the accuracy of this statement by drawing evidence from the following aspects of Greek/American culture:
 * Legal and political systems
 * Art and Architecture
 * Philosophy
 * Literature and Drama
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Atlantis/Trojan War
[|Atlantis Square Pantis](Sponge Bob) Lost City of Atlantis Found REUTERS (2011) media type="youtube" key="2VgEpl3qd8o" height="315" width="560"

Phalanx Warfare in Ancient Greece (6:40)

Pericles, the Delian League, and the Athenian Golden Age(7:42) Greek Tragedy & Comedy (10:35) Peloponnesian War and Thucydides (12:45) Socrates: Life, Death and Philosophy (9:00) Platonic Idealism: Plato and His Influence (14:46) Alexander the Great and the Birth of Hellenism (9:00) The Library of Alexandria & The Benefits of Hellenization (7:30) Euclid, Archimedes & Ptolemy: Alexandrian Hellenistic Philosophers (8:42)

Geography
Legacy of Greece

Great Greeks [|LEGO Antikythera Mechanism]

[|Parthenon Video] [|Hippocratic Oath] [|Video clip on pi] [|Philosophers World Cup] (MONTY PYTHON)



Alexander The Great [|The Odyssey]