Reviewing: Egypt and Greece

• In the Egyptian after life, whether or not a person went to the underworld had a lot to do with the ka. The ka was a person's soul and they would have their heart measured against a feather of mot. If it was lighter than the feather it could go into the afterlife with Osiris Isis and their names were entered in the book of the dead.
• 6 major historians
• Herodatus (490-525 BCE) - Persian wars between Greeks and Persians
• Thucydides (460/455-399BCE)- Pelopenisian wars Spartans Athenians
• Xenophon (428-354)- Athenian wrote about what happended during Socrates time
• Aristotle (384-323BCE) - logic and philosophy, wrote the first encyclopedia and had his students at his school help. Encyclopedia in Greek basically means encompasses all learning.
• Plutarch (46-120CE)- Greek lived during Roman occupation. Known for his biographies
• Pausanias (fl. 160CE)-wrote first travel guide
• Classical age started around 400 BCE with the Greeks coming out of the archaeic age.
• Persian Wars
• Xerxes worked his way up the coast and asked people to join him or be destroyed, some Greek city states joined him while others got destroyed. The bosphorus is also known as the Istanbul Straight. The went through Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus and then to Attica. For a while they were stopped at Thermopylae where the Spartans and some of their allies held them off so that Athens could be evacuated. The Harbor of Athens is called Piraeus it was the port of Athens and it had large walls that protected them from attacks.
• Greek Geography. When the Persians got their and the city was gone they burned everything including the things on the Acropolis. When the Persians were lured out to and defeated at Salamis the Athens returned and rebuilt the Acropolis and formed the Delian league and they used the money from the league treasury to rebuild the Acropolis.
• Thessalonika is also called Thrace, it is in the Northern Region of Greece
• The Acropolis has a history of war and religion. During the persian wars it was destroyed and it had the theater of Dionysus, a goddess. The Parthenon is on top of the Acropolis and it is the most important piece of Doric Architecture which is the oldest type of Architecture in Greece.
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