Greece is the Word Powerpoint

   Today in class, we started to take notes on the "Greece is the Word" Powerpoint Mr. Schick showed us. We learned a lot about the geography of Ancient Greece and how it affected their culture. Mr. Schick told us that there is going to be a part on the test with a map of Ancient Greece, and we need to fill in the names of the seas, city-states, etc. The terms we will need to label include the following:

Aegean Sea

Ionian Sea

Adriatic Sea (it’s just north of the Ionian Sea)

Peloponnesus

Athens

Sparta

Crete

Asia Minor

Macedonia

We will also need to know what bodies of water surround Greece, what large island is to the south/southeast of Greece, and where Athens and Sparta are located relative to the sea/to each other. Also, on the test, we will need to know the significance of Greece’s location, know Greece’s surroundings, and describe Greece’s topography. We will then have to match the civilization to it's important river/ body of water. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were important to Mesopotamia, the Nile River was important to Egypt, the Indus River was important to India, and the Huang He River was important to China. After this, we took a closer look at Greece's geography, and wrote about it more in our notebooks.