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Instructions

• Take jot notes during the power-point!

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Greece is a country in Europe. In ancient times,
people lived along the huge coastline where food
was plentiful.
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Geography

• Located on the Balkan Peninsula
• Many islands made it easier to travel to other
  countries for trade.
• Cut off by mountains and the seas
• Isolated
• Led to the formation of city-states
• Limited interaction and unity of Ancient Greece
• Created fierce rivalries
• Sea became a vital link
• Hundreds of bays to provide safe harbor for ships
• Skilled sailors
• Traded olive oil, wine, and marble
• Returned with grains, metals, and ideas
• Adapted the Phoenician alphabet
• Became basis for all Western alphabets

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Geography

• What did the Greeks do?
• They were isolated
• They had nice weather
• They had fierce rivalries
• What Ancient Greeks did
• Went to war
• Peloponnesian, Trojan, and Persian Wars
• Developed great thinkers
• Homer, Socrates, Plato
• Herodotus- Father of history
• Archimedes- Archimedes Screw
• Built temples to the gods and goddesses

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How did the Geography of Greece impact Ancient
Greeks?

• Created
• Great thinkers
• Great architecture
• Skilled traders
• War mongers
• Technology

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The Minoan Civilization
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The Minoan Civilization

• Island of Crete
• Became one of the most important links in the
  cultural exchange between Greece and Asia
• Knosses was located in central Crete
• The Place of Minos was located in Knosses, which
  was named after King Minos (greatest ruler of
  Crete)
• The ancient civilization of Crete was also given
  the name Minoan after the King Minos
• The Minoans were a very advanced civilization for
  the times. They had a strong navy, which is
  probably why the Greeks never succeeded in
  colonizing the Minoan people. 

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The Island of Crete
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Who discovered them?

• Heinrich Schliemann
• A brilliant pioneer in field archaeology, the
  German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, is best
  known for his excavations at ancient Troy,
  Mycenae Crete. His discoveries there were later
  to establish a historical background for the
  stories and legends told by Homer and Virgil

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What were the Minoans Like?

• What we know of the Minoans comes from what has
  been left behind, which is mostly frescoes.
• Since Crete is an island, they were not as
  concerned about invasion.
• They were a farming society that emerged into a
  mercantile society largely as a result of the
  introduction of bronze.
• For many centuries they prospered and
• thrived.
• They exported oil, wine, jewelry and crafts.
• They were the center of trade for the
• Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor.

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What were the Minoans Like?

• Wealth produced by trade had 2 effects
• They had social equality and leisure time
• They enjoyed bull-jumping! Some walls were
  painted with pictures of young people, both boys
  and girls, jumping over bulls.

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The Palace of Knossos
The Minoan king lived in a maze of a palace with
1500 rooms! The walls were painted with pictures
of people jumping over bulls! Even poor people
had four-room stone houses with running water and
bathrooms that flushed!
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Palace at Knossos
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Palace at Knossos

• What has told us a great deal about these ancient
  people are the paintings on the walls of the
  palace at Knossos.

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The Throne of Minos
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Religious Images Female Priestesses Double
Axe
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Myth of the Minotaur

• Greek Myth
• The wife of King Minos gave birth to a monster,
  half-man and half-bull
• The Minotaur was imprisoned in a labyrinth.
• His food was unmarried men women. 7 men and 7
  women were sacrificed each year.
• A hero, Theseus, volunteered to go as a
  sacrifice.
• With the help on the kings daughter, he was able
  to kill the minotaur and escape by following a
  string he had unwound on his way in.

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What happened to Minoans?

• Natural disasters hit Crete!
• Earthquake (around 1700 BCE)
• Volcanic eruption (around 1500 BCE)
• Tidal waves (following volcanic eruption)
• The Minoans disappear

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Activity

• Complete the following worksheets
• Map of Ancient Greece
• The Aegean Civilizations (read)
• The Early Period The Minoans (read and complete
  quiz)