Classical Greece
Geography
- Sea
- -allowed for great opportuntiy 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 three fourths 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 three big players in classical greece
Minoan influence
- Minoans: created an elegant civilization that had great power that started around 3000 bc
- minoans culture influenced he mycenaeans
- writing, language
- design
- trade
- used ships to trade goods
Mycenaenan Developes
- heavily influenced by the minoans
- they 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 storyteller: Homer
Trojan war
Key players: both individual and group
what occured
lasting effects
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