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A Carver's Road Through Greece, 432 BCE

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A Carver's Road Through Greece, 432 BCE

Follow a described map from Miletus to Sparta to compare city-states and Greek achievements.

The map and the journey

Read the map description and the journey. Then answer the questions.

A Map of Greece in 432 BCE (described in words)
1. Athens lies in central Greece, a short walk from its port on the Aegean Sea.
2. Miletus is a Greek city on the coast of Asia Minor (today's Turkey), east of Athens across the Aegean Sea.
3. Corinth lies west of Athens on the isthmus, the narrow neck of land that joins central Greece to the Peloponnese, a large peninsula to the south.
4. Delphi sits on a mountainside north of Corinth, across the Gulf of Corinth.
5. Olympia lies in the western Peloponnese, southwest of Delphi.
6. Sparta lies in the southern Peloponnese, southeast of Olympia.

The Journey of Theron the Carver

1Miletus. Theron, a young stone carver, sets out to see the great works of Greece. His city is proud of Thales, who lived here about 150 years earlier. Thales tried to explain earthquakes and floods through natural causes instead of the anger of the gods, and ancient writers say he predicted an eclipse of the sun. Another man of Miletus, Hippodamus, planned towns with straight streets crossing in a grid, including the port of Athens.

2Athens. On a hill called the Pnyx, Theron watches the Assembly, where any citizen man 18 or older may speak and vote. Pericles, the city's leading general, had Athens begin paying citizens a small daily wage for jury service. On the Acropolis, workers are finishing the Parthenon, a marble temple to Athena begun in 447 BCE. Its sculptures were planned under the sculptor Phidias.

3Corinth. Ships and carts crowd this rich trading city. Corinth has no assembly like the one in Athens; a council of wealthy men makes its decisions.

4Delphi. Visitors from many city-states climb to the temple of Apollo. Greeks believed Apollo answered questions through a priestess called the Pythia, and cities sent messengers to ask her advice before founding colonies or going to war.

5Olympia. Every four years, athletes from across the Greek world compete here in games held in honor of Zeus. During the games, a sacred truce pauses wars between Greek city-states. Theron finds Phidias himself in a workshop, shaping a huge seated statue of Zeus from gold and ivory.

6Sparta. Sparta has few grand buildings. Two kings lead its army, and they sit with 28 elders, men over 60, on a council. Five officials called ephors, elected every year, watch over the kings and can even put a king on trial. People in the streets talk of a coming war with Athens.

1.
Theron sails from Miletus to Athens. In which direction does he travel?
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2.
Which stops on Theron's route lie on the Peloponnese? Choose all that apply.
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3.
Using the map, what most likely helped Corinth become a rich trading city?
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4.
What does the sacred truce at Olympia best show about the Greek city-states?
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Three ways to govern

Use the Athens, Corinth and Sparta stops.

5.
Sort each detail by the city-state it describes.
6.
Before the jury wage, many Athenian jurors were men who could afford to miss a day of work. How did the wage most likely change who served?
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7.
A classmate says that every Greek city-state was a democracy like Athens. Which two stops best challenge this claim?
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8.
Underline the sentence from the Sparta stop that best shows that Spartan kings did not hold unlimited power.

Greek achievements

Use the whole journey.

9.
Match each person to the achievement the journey connects to him.
10.
Use the Athens stop. Theron visits in 432 BCE. Subtract the years.

By the time of Theron's visit, work on the Parthenon had gone on for about years.

11.
A doctor today looks for the cause of an illness by studying the patient instead of blaming bad luck. Which person on Theron's route used the most similar approach?
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12.
Claim: Greek achievements came from many city-states, not from Athens alone. Do you agree or disagree? Give evidence from at least two stops and explain your reasoning.