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[3rd Adam Zac]

• Classical Greece
  • Sea
    • Allowed for great opportunity for travel and trade
    • Important because it allowed Greece  to get the natural recourse that it lacked, timber precious metals usable farmland
  • Land
    • ¾ rugged mountains
    • Mountains were dividers  for different regions
    • Played a big role in wars, hard to move through with armies (when I’m doing presentations , use the roles of things in other things)
  • Climate
    • Upper 40’s in winter
    • Lower 80’s in summer
    • This climate allowed for many different outdoor activities
  • The three big players in greek influence
    • Minoan
      • Created an elegant divilization that had great power  and started  around 3000 bce
      • Minoan culture influenced the mycenaens
      • Writing
      • Language
      • Design
      • Trade
      • Used ships year round to trade goods 
    • Mydenaen
      • Heavily influenced by Minoans
      • Came from Indo-European migrants
      • Dominated Greece from 1600bce to 1100bce
    • Dorian
      • Spoke some kind of Greek
      • Not advanced as the other 2 civilizations
      • Military based
      • Focused on storytelling
      • Homer, came from them, the Iliad and the Trojan wars (talk about things like this during presentations)
    • Trojan war
      • Key players
      • What occurred
      • Lasting effects
      • Include some form of the Trojan horse