Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Greece-5.1
- Geography
- Sea: Aegean, Ionian, Black Seas
- Transportation
- Trade
- Land: mountainous
- political
influence
- mostly
not arable
- seek for colonies
- Climates
- 48~80F
- supported an
outdoor life
- Mycenaean
- City Mycenae
- massive
protective wall
- contact with
Minoans
- tell them the
value of trade
- writing system
- decorated vase
- Trojan War:1 200B.C.
- lasted 10 yrs
- Troy: independent
trading city in
Anatolia
- Helen
- Evidence in Turkey
- 2000B.C.: Indo-Euro
settled in Greek
- Dorians
- 1200B.C.: sea
raiders attacked
- Dorians moved in
- "Dark Age" 1150~750
B.C.:no written record
- Epics
- Homer:
750~700 B.C.
- Not a real
person
- Blind
- Greatest storyteller
- narrative poems
celebrating
heroic deeds
- arete:
virtue/excellence
- Myths
- Gods with
human qualities
- Lived forever