1. Label your TOC with any new handouts Write tonight’s hw in your agenda
Welcome to Greece!
Label your TOC with any new handouts
Write tonight’s hw in your agenda
Find the absolute location of Athens, Greece in the red textbooks (pgs. 311 or 317 or in the atlas in the back of the book)
Read silently - SSR

2. I-Think Timeline – Minoans Myceneans & Dorians
Thursday
November 7, 2013
Essential Question:
How did the human characteristics of the Minoans, Myceneans, and Dorians influence life in Greece?
Homework:
I-Think Timeline – Minoans Myceneans & Dorians

3. Agenda for Today SSR Minoans Mycenaean & Dorians Group Work
Teach each other about Minoan, Mycenaean, and Dorian people
Fill in graphic organizer with notes
Fill in map with Minoan, Mycenaean, and Dorian locations (if time allows)

4. Minoans Developed on the island of Crete by about 2000 BCE
1600 BCE – Height of Civilization
Bull leaping
1400 BCE – Decline of Civilization
Athletic Expert Sailors
Bulls
Dancers
Peaceful
Traders
Artists
Writers
Innovative
No one is certain what lead to their demise.
Theories include:
-cities destroyed by volcano
-underwater earthquake caused huge tidal waves

5. Mycenaeans 1600 BCE – came into power
1400 BCE – took place as most powerful civilization in Greece
1250 BCE – Attack on Troy (Trojan War)
1200 BCE – decline of Mycenaean Civ.
-Moved into Europe from central Asia
-Moved South through Balkan Peninsula
Theories include:
-natural disaster such as a drought cause widespread famine
-internal fighting brought civilization down
Warriors
Thieves
Masters of Security (walled cities)

6. Dorians Superior Weapons History Uncertain Dark Ages
1100 BCE – invaded Greece
Thought to have invaded Greece around 1100 BCE
Superior Weapons
History Uncertain
Dark Ages
Dorian culture mixed with mainland Greece