1. Ancient Greece Introduction and Geography

2. Essential Question: What title could be used to best define Ancient Greece?
Inequality: the social classes of ancient Greece
Advancement: the government
Regionalism: the city states
Nationalism: ethnocentrism, the Persian Wars

3. Geography How did geography define Ancient Greek civilization?
Parts of Culture affected by Geography:
Food Sources
Transportation
Agriculture
Trading
Mountains and Valleys:
Mountains divide the peninsula into isolated valleys
Scattered rocky islands
City-States were isolated from each other due to the geography
Little Fertile land for farming
Need for trade
The Seas:
Used for travel and expansion
Popular location for trade

5. Original Greeks Earliest civilization on island of Crete
Absorbed a lot from Egypt and Mesopotamia

6. Minoan Civilization Name created by British Height 1750 BC-1500 BC
Success based on trade
Acquire ideas and technology
What we learned from their paintings:
Value the Sea
Religion/gods
Women may have had many rights
They vanish in 1400 BC
Natural Disaster/invasion?

7. Mycenaeans Indo-European people 1st Greek speaking people
Conquered Greek Mainland, eventually Crete
Dominated Aegean world 1400 BC-1200 BC
Sea traders
Learned to write from Minoans
Lived in separate city-states
Each ruled by a warrior king

9. Trojan War (1250 BC) Economic conflict between Mycenae and Troy
Troy controlled waterways that connected the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea
10 years of fighting
Greeks seize and burn Troy
Question of actuality?

10. End of Mycenaens Fall to sea raiders Dorian’s invade from the North
1100 BC-800 BC: decline of civilization
Forgot many skills, such as writing

11. Homer: Iliad and Odyssey
Epic poems are written by more than just Homer
Around 750 BC
Gives us hints about life during the declining period
Tradition: Homer was a blind poet, passed down orally
Both portray Greek values: honor, courage, eloquence

12. Iliad
Trojan War
Story of the Greek hero Achilles

13. Odyssey
Odysseus struggles to return home to his wife after the Trojan War

14. For Centuries after Dorian Invasion:
Small, isolated villages
No writing
Little contact with the outside world.