Greece-5.1

Greece-5.1

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

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