Ancient Greece
- crucible-a place time or situation coming together
- Geography
- Mountainous peninsula
- mountains cover 3/4
- approximately 1400 island in the Aegean and Ionian Seas
- Location shaped its culture
- skilled sailors
- poor natural resources
- difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain; develop small, independent communities
- app. 20% was suitable for farming
- fertile valleys cover 1/4 of peninsula
- because of geography the Geek diet consists of grains, grapes, and olives
- Lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
- Temperatures range from 48 in the winder to 80 in the summer
- climate made them very active
- Mycenaeans
- began around 2000 BC
- Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 ft thick wall
- Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BC
- Controlled trade in the region
- 1400 BC Mycenaean invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language
- Culture Decline of Myceneans
- Around 1200 BC sea people began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace
- The Dorians moved into the war-torn region
- Far less advanced
- Economy collapsed
- writing disappeared for 400 years
- Homer and Myths
- Only stories were kept and passed on by word of mouth
- Homer lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages"
- Recorded stories of the Trojan War in the Iliad and The Odyssey (written 750-700 BC)
- Tojan war was probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaeans
- Greek Concepts
- Arete
- Epics
- narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds
- Myths were created to explain creation
- Zeus: leader of the gods
- Hera: Zeus' wife
- Athena: goddess of wisdom
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