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Intro to Early Greek History

• CHW3M
• Ms. Gluskin

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Geography
Black Sea
Aegean Sea
Asia Minor
Peloponnesus
Mediterranean Sea
Crete
World Civilizations Syllabus. Map Quiz No. 2
Classical Greece. 2004. http//www.wsu.edu/wldciv
/brians_syllabus/maps/map2.html (March 5, 2011).
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Coastal Terrain

• A lot of it
• Jagged, most of settlements near coast
• Natural harbours
• Lots of islands (in Med. Sea, Aegean Sea)
• Therefore, depend on sea lots of foreign
  contact, trade, colonies possibly vulnerable to
  invasion

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Physical Map
Darker colours higher altitudes
Mountains of Greece. N.d. www.in2greece.com
(Feb. 4, 2012).
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Inland terrain

• Mountainous (steep but not that high)
• Rocky not suitable to large-scale agriculture
  like Egypt (not wheat)
• Hot and dry summers, little rainfall
• Therefore mountains prevented areas from
  unifying independent city-states (polis)

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City States
Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Greek Galleries
Geography of Ancient Greece. 2011.
http//www.metmuseum.org/explore/Greek/map2.htm
(March 4, 2011).
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Resources
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Natural Resources

• Few, unevenly distributed
• Gold, silver
• Marble (monuments, sculpture)
• Iron ore
• Clay (pottery)
• Olive trees, grape vines
• Therefore trade of their major products,
  sometimes leads to conflicts between city states
  (not equal)

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Timeline

• Bronze Age (heroic age)
• Dark Age
• Classical Period (golden age)
• Hellenistic Period (after Alexanders death)

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Minoan Civilization

• Island of Crete
• 3000 1100 BCE

Minoan Bull Leaper
Bronze Bull, 1300-1200 BCE
Right The British Museum, Highlights Minoan
Bull Leaper. N.d. http//www.britishmuseum.org/ex
plore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/b/minoan_bul
l_and_acrobat.aspx (March 4, 2011)
Left Heritage Key Media. Top 10 Treasures to See
at the British Museum. 2011 http//heritage-key.
com/blogs/ann/top-10-minoan-treasures-see-british-
museum (March 4, 2011).
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Minoan Civ, cont

• Archaeology Magazine Minoans in Manhattan (2008)
  photo gallery
• http//www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/minoans/
  jpegs/index.php?start1
• Minnesota State University Mankato E Museum
  Ancient Greek Civilizations Image Gallery
  Minoan Art
• http//www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/gall
  eryimages/minoanimages.html
• Theseus and the Minotaur
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v8qrZ1clEp-Y

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Mycenaeans

• 1700-1250 BCE
• Mainland Greece
• Conquered Crete
• Art influenced by Minoan art

Terracotta krater, 13th Century BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Heilbrunn Timeline of
Art History. Mycenaean Civilization. 2000,
http//www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/74.51
.966 (March 4, 2011).
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Mycenaean Archaeology

• Brown University, Archaeologies of the Greek Past
• http//proteus.brown.edu/greekpast2010/admin/downl
  oad.html?attachid13998945

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The Trojan War
Reconstruction at Troy

• Myth and history?
• The British Museum, Explore The Trojan War the
  myth as shown through Greek vase painting
• http//www.britishmuseum.org/explore/families_and_
  children/online_tours/the_trojan_war/the_trojan_wa
  r.aspx

The British Museum, Explore The Trojan War. N.d.
http//www.britishmuseum.org/explore/families_an
d_children/online_tours/the_trojan_war/the_end_of_
achilles_and_troy.aspx (March 5, 2011).
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Ajax and Hektor Fighting
Perseus Digital Library, Image of Louvre G115,
N.d., http//www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/image?im
gPerseusimage1992.06.0585 (March 5, 2011).
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The Hellespont
Livius.org, Hellespont, 2007, http//www.livius.or
g/he-hg/hellespont/hellespont.html (March 5,
2011).
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Dark Age

• 1100-750 BCE
• End of Mycenaean civilization
• Decline of trade
• Dorian invasions
• Basic agricultural life
• Little evidence, written or otherwise

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Coming Out of the Dark Ages

• Alphabet
• Olympics
• Homer (Iliad, Odyssey)
• Colonies

Roman bust of Homer, c. 2nd century CE, Baeie,
Italy
The British Museum, Explore, Marble Bust of
Homer, N.d., http//www.britishmuseum.org/explor
e/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/m/marble_portrai
t_bust_of_homer.aspx (March 5, 2011).
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Phoenecians
Kaloustian. Lebanon. 2008. http//www.kaloustian.e
u/Lebanon-Beirut/index20Lebanon.htm (March 8,
2011).
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Greek Alphabet
Brown University, Archaeologies of the Greek
Past Alphabet (Early Greek). N.d.,
http//proteus.brown.edu/greekpast/4739 (March
5, 2011).
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Linear B Script Syllables
Ancient Scripts.com, Linear B, 2010,
http//www.ancientscripts.com/linearb.html (March
5, 2011).
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Olympics

• Started 776 BCE
• National Geographic video (3 mins)
• http//www.natgeoeducationvideo.com/film/958/ancie
  nt-greek-olympics

Olive wreath as prize
SI.com. 2008. http//sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200
8/extramustard/07/31/old-vs-new-olympics/
(March 8, 2011).
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Greek Gods
Mount Olympus, home of the gods
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Colonies
University of Texas. Map Greek Sicily. 2010.
http//www.utexas.edu/courses/ancientfilmCC304/l
ecture6/detail.php?linenum1 (March 8, 2011).
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• HW read and take notes on 109-113
• Homer,
• trade,
• Alphabet
• Colonization
• Olympic games
• Oracle at Delphi