Sea
-allowed for a 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 ¾ of ancient Greece
- Mountains were often the divider for different regions
- Played a big role in wars. Hard to move through mountains with a big army
Climate
-upper 40s in the winter
-lower 80s in summer
- the climate allowed for many different outdoor activities
Minoan influence
- Created an elegant civilization that had great power that started around 3000 B.C
- Culture influence the Mycenae’s
- Writing, language
- Trade
- Used ships regularly to trade goods
Mycenaean
-the Mycenaean were heavily influence by the Minoans
- they come from the Indo-Europeans migrants
Dominated Greece from 1600Bc to 1100Bc
Dorian
- Spoke a kind of Greece
- Not as advanced as the others, not writing system
- Focused more on storytelling
- Best storyteller: Homer
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