Greece pt.2

The worlds greatest civilizations are all located on water (usually rivers)

Civilization/Body of water
Mesopotamia/Tigris and Euphrates
Egypt/Nile
India/Indus
China/Huang He

What bodies of water surrounded Greece?
Adiratic Sea
Aegean Sea
Ionian Sea

Large Island to the South/Southeast of Greece
Crete

Uneven terrain made it hard for transportation
Scarce amount of roads that were only dirt
took very long to get places
Much of the land was stony
25% was arable land
Small streams could not support wide scale irrigation
Small population due to little farming
No more than a few million people lived in Greece at a time
Their land could not support the luxury, space, food, cattle, etc. they needed so they sought out other land
48-70 degrees farenheit
men were usually found at outdoor events
Mycenae  was located in southern greece, on a steep rocky ridge surrounded by a 20 foot protective wall that worked
From there, warrior-kings rulled surrounding villages
strong rulers controlled the areas around other Mycenaean cities
these kings dominated Greece from 1600 to 1100 B.C.
Mycenaean trade began to be seaborne using the idea from Minoan Civilization
They got greek language, art, religion, politics and practice from minoans
Micenaeans fought a 10 year war against Troy, an independent trading city located in Anatolia
Legend says a greek army besieged and destroyed troy because a Trojan prince had kidnapped Helen, the beautiful wife of a Greek king

Around 1200 B.C. sea raiders attacked and burned many Mycenaean cities and Mycenaean cities and the civilization collapsed
Dorians moved into the war-torn country side spoke dialect of Greeks but were distant relatives of bronze age Greeks far less advanced then Greeks

Stories spread through word
Homer wrote epics








Be able to identify

• Aegean Sea
• Ionian Sea
• Adriatic Sea
• Peloponneseus
• Athens
• Sparta
• Crete
• Asia Minor
• Macedonia