1. Chapter 10: Ancient Greece
Section 1: The Rise of City-States p
Key Terms: polis, citizen, acropolis, politics, aristocracy
Key Ideas:
*Physical geography helped shape Greek life and culture
-peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea
-mountain ranges; good for raising sheep and goats
-fishing and trading ships aided in the economy
*The basic political unit of ancient Greece was the city-state
-polis: city-state
-Minoans and Myceneans (Bronze)
-The Dark Age: writing and reading was forgotten
*Early Greek history was marked by frequent warfare among small city-states
-Myceneans destroyed the Minoans (Crete)
-Myceneans were destroyed by the Dorians (north)
-Trojan War (10 years); tricked with the Trojan Horse
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