Classical 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.
- Allowed for great opportunity for trade and travel
- 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 clime allowed for many different outdoor activities
- Minoan Influence
- Created an elegant civilization that had great power that started around 3000 BC
- Culture influenced the Mycenaeans
- Writing, language
- Design
- Trade
- Used ships to trade goods
- Created an elegant civilization that had great power that started around 3000 BC
- Mycenaean Develops
- Heavily influenced by the Minoans
- They came from Indo-Europeans migrants
- Dominated Greece from 1600 BC to 1100 BC
- Heavily influenced by the Minoans
- Dorian
- Spoke a kind of Greek
- Not as advanced as the others, no writing system
- Focused more on storytelling
- Best storyteller: Homer
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