2.4 The spread of Greek culture

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2.4 The spread of Greek culture

Philosophy	citizenship rights	democracy
direct source	myth	inequality
council of 500	head/body/tail	science

1. learning questions
2. Reading in silence
3. explanation
4. break 
5. examples of Greek culture 
6. making exercises

Learning question

How did Greek culture spread across the world?

Learning questions 

scientific

religious/mythological

philosophical

O no, my dog died! God must hate me because I didn't do my homework

O no, my dog died! I didn't feed him for 2 weeks, so maybe that's the reason. I will now stop feeding my hamster for 2 weeks and see what happens

O no, my dog died! But what does 'dead' actually mean? Is he really dead when his memory is still imprinted in my brain?

reading in silence 

• Paragraph 2.4
• 7 minutes
• Ready: you can start making the exercises

explanation

Greek culture

• We know about greek democracy, philosophy and science
• The Greek were also famous for art an architecture 
• Sculpture: Lifelike and perfect, based on anatomical studies
• Architecture: buildings for the ages, in perfect mathematical proportions 

The spread of Greek culture

• 800 BC: Only in modern Greece en Turkey
• First wave: colonization (800-600 BC)
• Second wave: Alexander the Gread (330 BC) 
• Everyone with another culture: barbarians

The influence of Greek culture

Antiquity has many different cultures. Why the Greeks?

1. Exceptional stuff, like democracy, sculpture and philosophy
2. Many other cultures are lost
3. The Romans were influenced by it

Is this how it should be? In the practical assignment we will take a look at different ancient cultures

Find examples of Greek influence in today's society

What to do now

1. Answer the learning question via SOM

2. Make question 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11