Geography
- Sea-
- great oppertunity for trade and travel (the Mountains)
- Allowed Greece to get natural resources- timber, metals, usable farmland
- Land-
- Rugged mountains covered about 3/4 of ancient Greece
- Mountains- dividers for different regions
- Played role in wars- hard to move through mountains
- Climate-
- Upper 40's in winter
- Lower 80's in summer
- Climate allowed for many outdoors activities.
Big 3 Players
Minoan-
- elegant civilization taht had great power in 3000BC
- Writen, Language
- Design
- Trade
- Use ships to trade goods.
Mycenaeans
- heavily influenced by Minoans
- Came from Indo-European migrants
- Dominated Greece from 1600BC- 1100BC
Dorian
- Spoke a kind of Greek
- Not as advanced
- No writing system
- Story telling
- Best Story teller Homer
Trojan War
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