Classical Greece
- Sea
-allowed for great opportunity for trade and travel
-important because it allowed Greece to get the natural resources that it lacked: timber, precious metals, usable farmland
- Land
-Rugged mountains covered about ¾ of ancient Greece.
-mountains were often the divider for different regions
-played a big role in wars. Hard to move through the mountains with large army
- Climate
-Upper 40’s in winter
-lower 80’s in summer
-the climate allowed for many different outdoor activities
The big 3 players(group or individual) in Classical Greece
- Minoan Influence
-created an elegant civilization that had great power that started around 3000 BC
-Minoans culture influenced the Mycenaean’s
-writing, language, design, trade, used ships for trade
- Mycenaean Develops
-were heavily influenced by Minoans
-came from Indo-Europeans migrants
-dominated Greece from 1600 BC to 1100 BC
- Dorian
-spoke a kind of Greek
-not as advanced as the others, no writing system
-focused more on storytelling
-best story teller: Homer (2 very important and influential ones)
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