1. Flipped Lesson Watch & take notes by Friday, November 13
Will need own notes for Open Notes Quiz (20 points)
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2. Geography of Greece
Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Black Sea = transportation routes
Connected Greece to other societies
Trade
Lack of farming land
Mountain divisions
Political effects

3. Mycenaeans Uncertain origins
Borrowed ideas/partly copied from contemporaries
Details of their story are unknown
Artifacts found in tombs of rulers

4. Small, independent kingdoms
City-states & warlords
Geographic separations
warrior aristocracy
Mycenae = largest city
Discoveries there provide most information
heavily fortified hilltops
military culture
infantry, chariots
Helmets & shields

5. 1450 BC – Crete invasion
Palaces adapted from the Minoan ones, seats for the king
Mycenae, Pylos & Tiryns
Center of industry
Storehouses & workshops
Great hall at its center

6. Trade
active traders in Eastern Mediterranean & west
Shipwreck discovery yielded goods from Cyprus, Anatolia, Phoenicia, Egypt, and Libya
Arts & Writing
battle/hunting scenes
Linear b
form of Greek – able to be deciphered on tablets

7. Tombs
Inside walls & filled with goods
Beehive like tombs
Religion
Connected to palace activities
Altars in the great hall
Worshipped Great Mother goddess & Classical period gods

8. Trojan War ~10 years
It is possible that these events happened during the Mycenaean expansion
Hilltop citadel capital featured in Homer’s epic
1200s BC: Mycenaeans vs. Troy
Kidnapped Greek princess
Details unclear
May have been based on real cities, people, & events
The Iliad

9. Collapse Dark Age when the Dorians moved in Population Writing
build up fortifications
Preparation for a sea battle BC
nomadic invaders? Internal disorder? Lessened trade routes?
Likely: internal
Dark Age when the Dorians moved in
Population
Writing
Trade & travel
Pottery