Classical Greece
Sea
- allowed opportunity for trade and travel
- allowed Greece to get natural resources that it lacked: timer, precious metals, usable farmland
Land
- Rugged mountains covered about 3/4% of ancient Greece
- Mountains were often the divider for different regions.
- Played big role in wars, Hard to move through mountains with large army.
Climate
- Upper 40s in winter
- lower 80s in summer
- allowed for many outdoor activities
Classical Greece
- Minoan-created an elegant civilization that had great power that started around 3000 bc
- Minoans culture influenced the Mycenaeans
- Writing, language
- Design
- Trade
- Ships to trade goods
- Mycenaeans-influenced by minoans
- came from Indo-European 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 story telling
-best is Homer
Key Players of Trojan War
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