ANCIENT GREECE
- Geography
- Sea
- allowed for great opportunity 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 about 3/4 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
- Minoan influence
- Minoans - created an elegant civilization that had great power that started around 3000 BC
- Minoans culture influence the Mycenaeans
- Writing, Language made first writing
- used ships to trade goods
- Mycenaean develops
- the Mycenaeans were heavily influence by the Minoans
- they came from Indo-Europeans migrants
- Dominated Greece from 1600 BC to 1100 BC
- Dorian
- spoke a kind of Greek
- might of had some connection to Greeks before with ancestors
- not as advanced as other, no writing system
- focuses more on storytelling
- best storyteller: Homer
- spoke a kind of Greek
- Trojan War
- key players: both individual and group
- what occurred?
- lasting effects?
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