1. Chapter 5 Classical Greece Section 1 – Cultures of the Mountains & the Sea

2. Geography Shapes Greek Life Geographically Greece is made up of …  Mountainous peninsula  About 2,000 islands  Difficult to farm! http://holylandarchive.com/section_images/28_PelopMap040217.jpg http://www.the-greek-islands.co.uk/greekmap. fhttp://www.the-greek-islands.co.uk/greekmap. f

3. Geography Shapes Greek Life Surrounded by seas…  Mediterranean Sea  Aegean sea  Ionian Sea Located on the Balkan Peninsula – made trade easier ~Could get what they could not grow ~Also brought ideas http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/cia07/greece_sm_2007.gifhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/cia07/greece_sm_2007.gif

4. Geography Shapes Greek Life The seas shaped Greece…  Greeks rarely had to travel longer then 85 miles to the coast http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/cia07/greece_sm_2007.gif

5. Geography Shapes Greek life Living so close to the coast was important for trade routes Greece was connected with other societies The Greeks lacked natural resources – timber, metals etc…

6. Geography Shapes Greek Life Mountains ran from the northwest to the southeast of the Balkan Peninsula The mountains affected the Greek communities because they became small independent communities

7. Geography Shapes Greek Life The roads that existed were just dirt paths It took travelers days to travel the distance we can travel in just hours in today's world

8. Geography Shapes Greek Life Greece was not able to support a large population due to  Lack of fresh water for fertilization  Very little amount of farmland

9. Geography Shapes Greek Life Temperature  Winter averages 48 degrees  Summer averages 80 degrees  Men met and discussed public events, news and civic life

11. Geography Shapes Greek Life Climate Mediterranean climate Winters are mild and wet ~grapes and olives Summers are warm and dry ~often droughts

12. Greek Culture Isolation, led to formation of city-states Limited interaction and unity Created rivalries

13. Mycenaean Civilization Develops The Mycenaens are said to have settled the Greek main land around 2000 B.C. The leading city: Mycenae http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/ARTH209images/Mycenaean/Mycenae_recon.jpg

14. Mycenaean Civilization Develops Mycenae is located in southern Greece on a steep rocky ridge http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/sijpkes/abc-structures-2005/Lectures-2005/lecture- 4/mycenaean_greece-map.jpg

15. Mycenaean Civilization Develops Kings dominated Mycenae civilization from 1600 to 1100 B.C.? Surrounded by a wall 20 feet thick! Could withstand any attack!

16. Mycenaean Civilization Develops Mycenae came in contact with Aegean islands, coastal towns, Syria, Egypt, Italy & Crete

17. Minoans 1500 BC – through trade or war, came in contact with Minoans Mainly from Crete http://z.about.com/d/atheism/1/0/4/U/TroyMap-l.jpg

18. Mycenaean’s took on Minoan writing system Politics, art and literature

19. Trojan War 1200 BC – Myceneans fought a 10 year battle against Troy Was an independent trading city Believed a Trojan prince kidnapped a Greek King wife – Helen – Troy was destroyed! http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00156/images/potraitofschliemann.jpg

20. Fact or Fiction??? Historians believe FICTION…until… Proof uncovered in Turkey Nature of the war remains unclear but it was the last for Mycenaean’s. Mycenaen’s civilization collapsed after the war

21. New group emerges The Dorian’s took over the war torn countryside Far less advanced They spoke a dialect of Greek http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/siias/images1/mapgreekmigration2.gif

22.  They may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Greeks.  The Dorians were far less advanced than the Mycenaeans.  The economy collapsed and trade eventually came to a standstill soon after their arrival

23.  Greeks lost the art of writing during the Dorian Age.  No written record exists from the 400-year period between 1150 and 750 B.C. As a result, little is known about this period of Greek history!!!

24. Greeks learned of their history during this time with stories Homer – greatest story tellers of all time – blind man Wrote epics – narrative poems about heroic deeds http://www.mrdowling.com/images/701homer.jpg