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Title: 5.1 Cultures of the Mountains and the Sea


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5.1 Cultures of the Mountains and the Sea
5.1
  • The roots of Greek culture are based on
    interaction of the Mycenaean, Minoan, and Dorian
    cultures

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Geography Shapes Greek Life
  • Ancient Greece
  • Collection of separate lands where Greek-speaking
    people live
  • Includes mainland and about 2000 islands
  • The Sea
  • The sea shapes Greek civilization
  • Proximity to sea, lack of resources encourage sea
    travel and trade

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Geography Shapes Greek Life
  • The Land
  • Mountains slow travel, divide land into regions
  • Lack of fertile land leads to small populations,
    need for colonies
  • The Climate
  • Moderate climate promotes outdoor life
  • Greek men, especially, spend much of their time
    outside

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Mycenaean Civilization Develops
  • The Trojan War
  • Trojan War fought by Mycenaeans against city of
    Troy in 1200s BC
  • Once though to be fictional, archaeological
    evidence has been found

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Greek Culture Declines Under the Dorians
  • Dorians Replace Mycenaeans
  • Mycenaean civilization collapses around 1200 BC
  • Dorians possibly relatives to the Bronze Age
  • Greeks move into Greece
  • Less advanced than Mycenaeans, Dorians leave no
    written records

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Greek Culture Declines Under the Dorians
  • Epics of Homer
  • Oral tradition grows, especially epics of Homer
    blind storyteller
  • Epic a narrative poem about heroic deeds
  • Homers Epic the Iliad, about Trojan War, shows
    Greek heroic ideal

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Greek Culture Declines Under the Dorians
  • Greeks Create Myths
  • Greeks develop their own myths traditional
    stories about gods
  • Greeks seek to understand mysteries of life
    through myths
  • Greeks attribute human qualities love, hate,
    jealousy to their gods
  • Zeus, ruler of Gods, lives on Mount Olympus with
    his wife, Hera
  • Zeuss daughter Athena is goddess of wisdom and
    guardian of cities
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