Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece

• World History Chapter 5

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Greece

• Which early civilization, Egypt or China, do you
  think had MORE influence on Greek culture? Why?
• From the map, do you think the Greeks relied more
  on farming or trade? Why?

Grab your Aristotle WH buddy and discuss!
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Minoans (Crete)

• Unknown civilization that disappeared.
• Called Minoans after mythological King Minos.
• Minoan height was 1750 BC to 1500 BC.

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Trade

• Traded with Nile Valley and Middle East.
• Cultural diffusion an exchange of ideas.

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Palace at Knossos

• House of the royal family
• Religious shrines
• Frescoes paintings done on wet plaster

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What do these Frescoes say about Minoan culture?

• Water
• Wealth
• Servants
• Social class
• Polytheistic

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Minoans disappear

• By 1400 BC the Minoans had disappeared.
• Possible volcanic eruption? (scholars say yes)
• Earthquake/tidal wave?
• Invaders came into the region and took over

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Mycenaens

• Dominated the Agean Region from 1400 to 1200 BC.
• Sea traders
• Lived in separate city-states
• Warrior-King rules small villages

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Trojan War

• 1250 BC
• Mycenae and Troy (Greeks)
• Troy was a wealthy trading town in now-Turkey
• http//www.flashearth.com
• Straits between Black and Mediterranean Seas

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Heinreich Schliemann
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Homer

• Epics the Odyssey and the Illiad
• Blind poet
• Initially orally passed, then written down
• Inspiration to many, many other stories (ones you
  probably like!)