Social studies

• Places mentioned

  • Marathon
  • Macedonia
  • Alexandria in Egypt
• Men gathered in the agora to discuss politics and discuss natural events
• Public life only included men
• Poor women in Athens needed to work outside the home and most Greeks felt that women needed to be guided by men
• Spartan women trained to build their bodies to have healthy children because they only wanted healthy citizens so they could build up their military and they could own land
• Spartans


  • Considered to be tough, silent, and grim
• Historians believe that of the population in Athens were slaves
• Slaves in Sparta were called helots. Historians believe these helots outnumbered the Spartans. Helots did all the farm work
• Athens won a victory over the Persians at Marathon. Because of this great victory, Athens became the most powerful city-state in all of Greece
• Just north of Greece lay a kingdom called Macedonia. Its ruler was King Phillip. He united Macedonia and took control over all Greece. He thought of himself as Greek and spread the Greek culture
• King Philip had a son named Alexander. Alexander was tutored by Aristotle, the philosopher. He became king at the age of 20 and he was determined to conquer the Persians. Alexander was an excellent king and warrior and modeled his life after Achilles in the Greek myth, Illad. Alexander's conquests led him to name many of them after himself. For example: Alexandria in Egypt Here math and science flourished
• After 11 years of conquests his men refused to move one more step
• Alexander unexpectedly died. Historians believed he was bitten by a disease-carrying mosquito