Notes
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Greece.
- Sea
- Allowed for great opportunity for trade and travel
- Important because it allowed Greece to get the natural resources that it lacked;
- Land
- Mountains were the divider for different regions
- Played a big role in wars. Hand to move through the mountains with large army.
- Rugged mountains covered about ¾ of ancient Greece.
- Climate
- Upper 40’s in winter
- Lower 80’s in summer
- Allowed many outdoor actives
- Minoans
- Created an elegant cultivation that had great power that started around 3000 B.C
- Influenced the Mycenaeans
- Writing, Language
- Design, Trade
- Used ships to trade goods.
- Mycenaean
- were heavily influenced by Minoans
- Came from Indo-Europeans migrants
- Dominated Greece from 1600 to 1100 BC
- Dorian
- Spoke a kind of Greek
- Not as advanced as the other, no writing system
- Focused on storytelling. Best storyteller; Homer
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