Below are my notes ....
- Greece is a mountainous peninsula
- mountains cover 3/4 of Greece
- Approximately 1,400 islands in the Adriatic
- Ionian and Aegean Seas
- This combination shaped Greece's culture
- They had skilled sailors and ship builders
- They had limited natural resources so they needed to trade
- It was difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain
- developed small independent (communities) city-states
- although fertile valleys cover on quarter of the peninsula
- only about 20% is suitable for farming
- Greek diet consists of
- grapes
- grains
- olives
- lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
- back then the temperatures ranged from the mid 40s in the winter and in the summer it was in the low 80s.
- had pretty nice weather - year round
Early People
- Mycenaens
- their influence began around 2000 BCE
- Mycenaensis located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20- foot thick wall
- Mycenaen kings dominated Greece from 1600 - 1200 BCE
- controlled the trade region
- 1400 BCE invaded Crete and absorbed minoan culture and language
- "Sea people' & Dorians
- around 1200 BCE the mysterious "sea people" invaded Myceanae & burnt palace after palace
- so, the dorians moved into this war - torn region
- far less advanced
- trade based economy collapsed
- writing disappeared for 400 years
- talk about culture in decline except
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