Review- Egypt, and more

•  The Ankh- stands for eternal life and the infinite- it is a shape. 
• The jar with the heart in it is weighted against a feather after someone dies. The feather was called the feather of Maat. 
• The book of the Dead---
• The six major historians of ancient Greece-  Herodotus wrote about the Persian wars, which was between the greeks and the Persians. He wrote the first history in western civilizations. 
• Thucydides wrote the second half of the fifth century, and writes about the Peloponnese was between the Athens and the Spartans. 
• Xenophon- an Athenian that wrote about what occurred during the time of Socrates
• Aristotle- Wrote history, and worked with logic and philosophy. He was the first guy to write an encyclopedia.
• Plutarch- Known for his biographies. 
• Pausanias- wrote the first travel guide, which was to all of the cites in Greece. 

• The Persian wars take place just as the fifth century is unfolding. (the 400's, BCE)
• The straight that comes out of the ? is called the bosphorus, or the Istanbul straight. The Persians crossed this. 
• Thessalonika is to Greece like Baltimore is to Maryland. 
• The Persians come down from Thrace, and enter Macedonia, and then Thessaly, and then Epirus, and then Attica. 
• They get stopped for a little at Thermopylae. 
• When the Persians got there, Athens was evacuated, so they burned the Acropolis. Then they battlesd and the Persians were destroyed. 
• They then rebuilt everything. 
• You can see everything form the top of the acropolis. 
• The Parthenon- Doric architecture. It was the temple of the city, to the virgin Athena, and it was the most sacred temple in all of Athens. It was built with the funds that came through the Athenian league. 
• The Persians battle the Athenians at Salamis, the Athenians win, and the Persians are kicked back....