Wednesday September 5,2012

Classical Greece Sea:

-allowed for great opportunity for trade and travel

-important becasue it allowed greece to get natural resources that it lacked

Land:

-rugged mountains covered about 3/4 of ancient Greece

-Mountains were often the divider for differnt regions

-played a big rol in wars,hard to move through the mountains with large army

Climate:

-upper 40s in winter

-lower 80s in summer

-the climate allowed for man different activities

The big 3 in classical greece:

Minoan influence:

-minoans created an elegant civilization that had great power that started around 3000 bc

-minoans culture influenced the mycenaeans

-writing language

-design

-trade

-used ships to trade goods

Mycenaean Develops:

-the mycenaens were heavily influenced by the minoans

-they came from indo

-Europeans migrants

-Dominated greece form 1600 bc to 1100 bc

Dorian:

-spoke a kind of greek

-not as advanced as the others,no writing system

-focused more on storytelling

-best storyteller:Homer

Trojan war: -key players: both individual and group -what occurred -lasting effects

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