CLASSICAL GREECE
**Sea
- allowed for great opportunities for trade and travel
- important because it allowed Greece to get the natural resourced that it lacked; timber, precious metals, and usable farmland
**Land
- Rugged mountains covered about 3/4 of acient Greece
- mountains were often the divider for different regions
- played a big role in wars. hard to move through the mountains with a large army
**Climate
- moderate climate
- upper 40's during the winter
- lower 80's in the summer
- allowed many different outdoor activities
*Minoan influence
- created an elegant civiliazation that had great power that started around 3000 BC
- culture influenced the Mycenaeans
- used ships to trade goods
- writing language, design, trade
*Mycenaean Develops
- were 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 systems, everything was based off of stories
- best story teller- Homer
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