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Cultures of the Mountains and Seas

Bold: Mycenaeans- Some of the people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 BC. Trojan War: During 1200 BC the Mycenaeans fought for ten years aginst Troy, and independent trading city. For many years historians thought the storyies told of the Trojan War were fictional, but in 1870 an archeologist named Hienrich Schleigmann suggested that the stories of the Trojan War were based on real cities, people, and events. Dorians- People who moved onto the war-torn countryside, they spoke a dialect of Greek and may have been a distance reletive of the Bronze Age Greeks. Homer: A blind man, known for being the greatest Greek story teller, little is known of his personal life. Epics: Narritive poems that Homer composed about heroic deeds, sometime between 750 and 700 BC. Myths: Traditional stories about Greek Gods.

Key People: Homer

Ideas/Events:


 * SETTING THE STAGE:
 * Greek wasn't always a united country, it wa once many separate islands.
 * By 3000 BC Minoans lived on the Greek island Crete.
 * The Minoans created and elegante civilization that had over much the mediteranian world.
 * People along the Black Sea and the Antolia slowly migrated and settled in mainland Grese.

GEOGRAPHY SHAPES GREEK LIFE:
 * Ancient Greese consisted on mainly mountaineous penninsula jutting out ontot he mediteranian sea.
 * The Greeks didn't live on land, they lived around sea.
 * The Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and Black sea were the major trade and transportation routes for Greek people.
 * Rugged mountains covered about three fourths of ancient Greese.
 * Mountain divided the region into many different parts. That greatly influenced Greek political life, instead of a single government the Greek had small independent governments.
 * Tiny but fertile valleys covered about one-fourth of Greese.
 * With little farmland and fresh water for irrigation, Greese could never be heavily populated.
 * Historians guess that no more than a few million people lived in Ancient Greese at one time.
 * Greese had a varied climate, in the winter the average temperature was 48 degrees farenhight. In the summer the average temperature was 80 devgrees farenheight.

MYCENAEAN CIVIZATION DEVELOPES:
 * The Mycenaean people came from they're leading city Mycenae.
 * Mycenae was located in southern Greese on a step rocky ridge surrounded by a protective wall about 20 feet thick.
 * Strong rulers ruled the cities around Mycenae.
 * The strong warrior kings dominated Greese from 1600 to 1100 BC.
 * Mycenaens opened up to sea reading from meeting the Minoans.
 * The Minoans influenced the Mycenaens in many ways, like writing systems and art.

GREEK CULTURE DECLINES UNDERTHE DORIANS:
 * After the tojan war the Mycenaean civilization collapsed.
 * The Dorians were dad less advanced than the Mycenaean people.
 * Shortly after the Dorian people arrived the economy collapsed, and after that the trade eventuLly came to a standstill.
 * The Dorian people lasted from 1150 to 750 BC.
 * There are no records of the Dorian time period.
 * Iliad was one of Homers best epic poems.
 * Arête means Exellence.
 * Through myths Greeks wanted to understand the mysteries of nature and human passion.
 * Greek gods quarried and competed with eachother endlessly.
 * Greeks thought of Athena the god of wisdom as the garfish of cities.

Environmental Challenges:
 * The Three important environmental influences: the land, sea, and climate.