Classical Greece
9/3/2012
Geography
- Sea
- Allowed for great opportunities for trade and travel
- Important because it allowed Greece to get the natural resources that it lacked: timber, precious metals, usable farm land
- 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 the mountains with large armies.
- Climate
- Upper 40’s in winter
- Lower 80’s in summer
- Climate allowed for many different outdoor activities
- The Three Big Players in Classical Greece
- Minoan Influence
- Created an elegant civilization that had great power that started around 3000 B.C.
- Minoans culture influenced the Mycenaeans
- Writing language
- Design
- Trade
- Used ships to trade goods
- Minoan Influence
- Mycenaean Develops
- The Mycenaeans were heavily influenced by the Minoans
- They came from the Indo-Europeans migrants
- Dominated Greece from 1600 B.C to 1100 B.C.
- Dorian
- Spoke a kind of Greek
- Not as advanced as the others, no writing system
- Focused more on story telling
- Best known story teller is Homer
- Trojan War
- Key Players: Both Individual & Group
- What Occurred?
- Lasting Effects?
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