03/09/15 Ancient Greece

Finally, we had a class today, we started talked about Ancient Greece, here's the notes that i took.

Ancient Greece is the Word

• The Worlds greatest civilization are all located on a river
• Great Civilization/Key River
• Mesopotamia – Tigris/ Euphrates River
• Egypt – The Nile
• India – Indus River
• China – Huang He River
• Ionian Sea
• Terra –earth
• Medi –medium
• Mediterranean – Middle of the Earth
• Crete is the largest island in Greece
• Greece’s Geography
• Greece is a mountainous area
• Mountains cover ¾ of Greece
• The combination of the Peninsula and the mountainous area shaped Greece’s culture
• They had many sailors and shipmakers (They lived on the sea)
• They had poor/limited natural resources, so they had to trade
• Although fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula, only 30% is suitable for farming
• Greek diet: Grains, grapes, olives
• Arable – good for farming
• Their influence began around 2,000 BCE
• Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BCE
• 1400 BCE – Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language
• “sea people” and Dorians
• around 1200 BCE, the mysterious “sea people” began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace
• Writing disappeared for 400 years