Greece-5.1

Greece-5.1

1. Geography

   • Sea: Aegean, Ionian, Black Seas
     • Transportation
       • Trade
   • Land: mountainous
     • political influence
     • mostly not arable
       • seek for colonies
   • Climates
     • 48~80F
       • supported an outdoor life

2. Mycenaean

   • City Mycenae
     • massive protective wall
     • contact with Minoans
       • tell them the value of trade
       • writing system
       • decorated vase
   • Trojan War:1 200B.C.
     • lasted 10 yrs
     • Troy: independent trading city in Anatolia
     • Helen
     • Evidence in Turkey

3. 2000B.C.: Indo-Euro settled in Greek

4. Dorians

   • 1200B.C.: sea raiders attacked
     • Dorians moved in
   • "Dark Age" 1150~750 B.C.:no written record

5. Epics

   • Homer: 750~700 B.C.
     • Not a real person
     • Blind
     • Greatest storyteller
   • narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds
   • arete: virtue/excellence

6. Myths

   • Gods with human qualities
     • Lived forever