24 January 2013 Bellringer – Please have your homework out on your desk. Discuss Homework – make corrections! Chapter 8.1 Notes (preview chapter) HW : Read 8.1 & Magnet Notes
The Early Greeks World History Chapter 8, Section 1
Geography
Climate of Athens
The Minoans Located on the “Island of Crete”
The Minoans We can’t read their writing Did not speak Greek – Not Greek!
The Minoans Into the arts & peaceful trade along the sea
The Minoans
The Minoans … how they end???? Possibly wiped out by a tsunami (1600s BC)
Mycenaeans The first Greeks! They were attackers –Very war like –Trade was hostile
Mycenaeans
Mycenaeans – a tomb
Mycenaeans’s end is unknown …???? Began to fall apart in 1200 BC Wars?/Invaders? Famine?
Mycenaeans Their fall led to the “Dark Age”
City-States Polis means city-state Known as the Classical Age (great achievements) Each city state was independent and had its own identity
City-States Each city-state was centered around an acropolis or large fortress