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Mediterranean Europe
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Mediterranean Europe
The Roman Empire (Cont'd)
Greek Mythology
- Choose one greek myth, and write it down in your notebook.
- Who is the main character of your Greek myth, and what kind of God or Goddess is she?
- By 395 A.C.E. the empire was too big
- Answer the followin in your notebook
- What kind of event (nature, war, force) is this myth explaining?
Assessment
- Western and Eastern or Byzantine Empire
- In small groups answer the following questions in your notebook.
Greek Mithology
1. What are the two ancient civilizations of this region?
2. How was the Renaissance an example of the movement of ideas?
3. What is Rome's cultural legacy in Mediterranean Europe today?
4. How has Mediterranean Europe's economy changed since World War II?
PAP Only 5. Briefly explain TWO important similarities between the civilizations of Greece and Rome.
Greece: Birthplace of Democracy
Definition?
What is a democracy?
European Conflicts
- Science, philosophy, drama and art
Major artists of the Renaissance
Two dictators in Mediterranean Europe
- Eastern Rome lasted nearly 1,000 years longer
- Leonardo
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
- Most of the art during the Renaissance focuses on the individual and religion
- Donatello
- Renewed interest in learning and the arts
Economic Change
The Renaissance
The Economy has been changing rapidly since WWII
- Began in Italy
The end of Greece
- Florence and Venice became rich from banking and foreign trade
= POWER
The Mediterranean
Why do we have many civilizations along the mediterranean?
The Roman Empire
Two factors:
1. Mild climate
2. The Mediterranean sea
Spain's Empire
Italian city-states
- Ruled most of the Italian Peninsula by 275 B.C.E
- Rome was a republic
Definition?
- Conquered territories overseas - Iberian and Balkan peninsulas
- The republic ended due to internal conflicts --> Ruled by an emperor
- Rome conquered Palestine.
- Christianity became Rome's official religion
- Spain and Portugal established colonies in the Americas
- Their empires spread Catholicism and the Spanish and Portuguese languages.
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Benito Mussolini
- European Christians launched the Crusades in 1096
- Take over Palestine from the Muslims.
- In the 700's, Muslims from North Africa conquered the peninsula
- It fell in 476
- Ancient Greece left a legacy
- a. Athens --> the FIRST Democracy
- b. Athenian systems inspired the U.S. system of government.
- Macedonia conquered Greece - 338 B.C.E.
Phillip II
- Italy divided into small city-states
- Wars with Persia
- Wars with Sparta
Francisco Franco
- Western Rome grew weak
Textiles
- 1492 - Queen Isabella paid for Christopher Columbus's first voyage
- Spain's Catholics rulers retook Spain from the Muslims in 1492
Clothing and shoes
Automobiles
- Balkan Peninsula
- Villages were isolated city-states