1. Do-now
How do you think geography influenced the Greek way of life and their interaction with other people? (Think back to map activity)

2. Essential questions: What civilization influenced the Minoans?
How did Mycenaean civilization affect the later Greeks?
What do the epics of Homer reveal about the Greeks?

3. Early People of the Aegean
The Minoans and the Mycenaeans

4. The Minoan civilization developed along the Aegean Sea

5. The Minoan economy was based on trade…why?
traded with the Egyptians and Sumerians

6. Cultural Diffusion
The Minoans gained a lot of knowledge and technology from the other civilizations it traded with.

7. The Minoan civilization was destroyed
How?

8. The Minoan civilization was destroyed
How?
Possibly a natural disaster?

9. The Minoan civilization was destroyed
How?
Possibly a natural disaster?
Invaders?
Mycenaeans

10. The Mycenaeans took control of the Aegean world

11. The Mycenaeans lived in City-States
A city and the surrounding lands that govern themselves

12. The Trojan War
A war between the Trojan city-state and the Mycenaeans

13. Homer
A blind poet that was infamous for his story of the Iliad and the Odyssey

14. The Epics
A historic treasure
Inspired other great works

15. Exit Ticket