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    The Greek Gods

    Calisthenics
    1. Sit down silently, and place your post-card HW
    on the upper RIGHT hand corner of your desk.
    2. Copy your hw: Finish your Greek Gods Family
    Tree
    3.
    Just Write The Answers!!!:
    1 .What is the difference between Greek Classical Culture
    and Hellenistic Culture
    2. What did Alexander the Great do that made him so
    important?

    4. Answer the Question!

    Test Prep!

    Brain Pop!
    http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudi
    es/worldhistory/greekgods/preview.w
    eml

    Your Task
    You are a Greek historian, attempting
    to create a family tree of all the
    Greek Gods. There are so many
    Greek gods throughout history that
    you really have to work hard to
    research who the gods were and how
    they were related.
    Your task is to create a family tree for
    the following Greek Gods!

    Greek Religion
    The Greeks were Polytheistic
    (meaning they believed in more than
    one god)

    Greek Gods
    The Greek gods were considered to
    be more human-like than other
    Gods. They looked and acted like
    people, but they had special powers.

    Zeus
    Was considered to be the (main) God
    who ruled over all of the others.

    Location
    All 12 of the Greek Gods and
    Goddesses lived on Mount Olympus
    and Greek people went to Olympia to
    worship the gods.

    Greek Boys
    Greek boys were encouraged to grow
    up to be heroes like the ones they
    read about in Epics.

    I want to be like
    Poseidon!

    Theogony by Hesoid
    This story tells the creation of the gods and
    the world from the Greek perspective. Before
    creation, the universe was empty. Gaea,
    Earth was born cut of the emptiness. She
    had a son, Uranus. Uranus became the king
    of the sky and mated with Gaea to produce
    the Titans. Uranus imprisoned the Titans in
    Gaeas body. The youngest Titan, Cronus,
    attacked Uranus and freed himself and the
    other Titans, Cronus became the king of the
    gods.

    Cronus married his sister Rhea and they


    had six children. Fearing his children
    would turn against him, Cronus
    swallowed the first five as they were
    born. The last child, Zeus, was saved.
    When Zeus grew up he rescued his
    siblings from Cronus body. Zeus and
    his siblings then defeated Cronus and
    the Titans in a war. The victors chose
    Zeus as their chief god and decided to
    live on Mount Olympus. They became
    the most powerful group of gods.

    Thinking it through
    What did the Greek god Cronus do to
    his children?
    A. he turned them into humans
    B. he started a war with them
    C. He put them up into the sky as gods
    D. He swallowed them as they were born

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