introduction to Greece notes

even more geography

  • quarter of peninsula arable
  • Greek diet consisted of grain, grapes, olives, fish
  • lack of resources led to civilization
  • temperatures ranged from mid 40's to low 80's
some early peoples
  • began around 2000 BC
  • Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge on Peloponnesus, protected by a 20 foot thick wall
  • Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1100 BC
  1. controlled trade in the region
  • 1400 BCE Mycenaean's invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture (writing system, language, art, politics, religion, literature)
the Trojan war
  • fought in 1200 BCE
  • gods and goddesses were involved
"sea people" and Dorians
  • 1200 BCE sea people started to invade Mycenae burning palaces
  • Dorian's moved in dominating 1150-750 BCE
  1. Dorian's were far less advanced
  2. trade-based economy collapsed
  3. writing disappeared for 400 years
Homer
  • blind story teller of the Trojan war
  • the Liad
  • the Odyssey- 12,110 lines
  • Was he real?

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