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Title: Chapter 9: Beginnings of Greece


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Chapter 9 Beginnings of Greece
  • 2800 B.C. 750 B.C.

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  • Started in 2800 B.C. in Crete
  • Grew wheat, barley, grapes, olives
  • Carpenters metal workers
  • In 2000 B.C., Crete is worlds first important
    seafaring civilization

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The People
  • Were small, bronze- skinned, had long dark hair
  • Men
  • Wore long robes trousers
  • Farmed Fished and Served in navy Royal Guard
  • Women
  • Wore full skirts short-sleeved jackets
  • Household duties and hunting in chariots
  • Both loved sports
  • Built the first arena
  • Boxing bull leaping

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Houses
  • Built side by side with courtyards
  • Were 2 stories
  • No doors people used roof ladders
  • Later on, windows doors made from animal skin
    parchment

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Cities palaces
  • Built cities different from the past
  • Palace in center not surrounded by walls
  • KNOSSOS
  • 5-story palace called
  • HOUSE OF THE DOUBLE AX
  • Multi-purpose
  • Walls painted with FRESCOES
  • Watercolor paintings
  • Hot cold running water heat
  • LABYRINTH network of paths which made it
    difficult to find your way

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Rulers Religion
  • Rulers were priest-kings
  • Went to Mount Juktas to look for signs from Gods
  • Believed in multiple gods
  • Mother Earth greatest
  • People built shrines (sacred places of worship)
    to honor gods
  • Sacred horns decorated on back
  • of shrine
  • Believed in sacred symbols
  • Lilly, double ax, and dove

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Fall of the Minoans
  • 1400 B.C. control of the land changed hands
  • No one knows for sure why they ended
  • Became a legend a story coming down from the
    past whose truth is popularly accepted but cannot
    be checked
  • Theseus the Minotaur

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Section 2 The Mycenaeans
  • 2000 B.C. traveled from Russia to Greece
  • King built a fortress / palace on top of hill
  • Megaron square room with a fireplace used for
    meetings entertainment
  • People lived on estates who worked and farmed for
    protection

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Traders pirates
  • Learned how to make gold bronze, created
    language based on Cretan script, built ships
  • Grew olives to make oil
  • Great warriors
  • Used large shields w/ wooden frames, spears,
    swords
  • Leader wore fancy bronze armor
  • Fought other lands became chief power of Aegean
    world in 1400 B.C.

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Trojan War 1200 B.C.
  • Mycenaeans attacked Troy (major trading city)
  • Troy (Trojans) controlled taxed people who used
    trade routes from Black Sea to Greece
  • 500 years later, a blind poet, Homer, wrote 2
    poems about the event
  • 1. Iliad war fought over a woman
  • 2. Odyssey tells journey of Odysseus, a hero
    from the war

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Dark Ages
  • Civil wars broke out betweencitizens destroyed
    fortresses
  • Dorians entered Greece
  • conquered Mycenaeans
  • Dark Ages 300 years long
  • Mycenaeans lost trading, painting, work skills
    language
  • Had to start their civilization all over
  • Independent Communities Hellenes or Greeks
  • 700 BC 336 B.C.
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