Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece
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Geography

• Greece is a peninsula about the size of Louisiana
  in the Mediterranean Sea.
• It was very close to Egypt and the Persian empire
  (including Turkey) and Rome.

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Greek Geography

• Greece is very mountainous
• Greek communities often times developed
  independently (separate)
• They fought each other a lot.

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Greek Geography
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Greek Geography
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Observations? Travel?
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City-State / Polis

• A city-state is an independent city with its own
  government and laws that is ruled by one ruler
  (but it can be in the same civilization).
• What would cause Greek Polis (city-states) to
  develop so differently from one and other?

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The Earliest Greeks
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The Minoans 3000 BC-1500 BC

• Lived on Crete
• capital - Knossos
• First people in Greece

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About Minoans

• Great ship builders and traders
• Written language
• Art
• Palaces
• Running water
• Influenced the Myceneans

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Myceneans 2700 BC-1100 BC

• From central Asia
• Invaded Greece 1900 BC
• First Greek kings

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Myceneans

• Great warriors
• Fought with stone
• Traded with Minoans
• Known as the Heroic Age
• Trojan War

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The Dark Ages 1100 BC-800 BC

• Mycenaean collapsed
• Trade Slowed
• Poverty
• Lost language and culture
• Written records stopped

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The Dorians1100 BC-800 BC

• Came from North of Greece
• Iron weapons
• No written language
• Little culture
• Storytelling

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Storytelling1100 BC-800 BC

• Went from town to town - job
• Same stories same language same history/religion
• United Greek language

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Effects of Dark Ages

• City-States
• Common spoken language
• Fables, legends, myths, religion
• Metal tools

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Early Greeks Comprehension

• How were the Myceneans and Minoans similar, why?
• How were they different?
• ( Hint think government, daily life, location,
  jobs, etc.)

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Myth
http//greece.mrdonn.org/theseus.html