1. 24 January 2013 Bellringer – Please have your homework out on your desk. Discuss Homework – make corrections! Chapter 8.1 Notes (preview chapter) HW : Read 8.1 & Magnet Notes

2. The Early Greeks World History Chapter 8, Section 1

3. Geography

4. Climate of Athens

5. The Minoans Located on the “Island of Crete”

6. The Minoans We can’t read their writing Did not speak Greek – Not Greek!

7. The Minoans Into the arts & peaceful trade along the sea

8. The Minoans

9. The Minoans … how they end???? Possibly wiped out by a tsunami (1600s BC)

10. Mycenaeans The first Greeks! They were attackers –Very war like –Trade was hostile

11. Mycenaeans

12. Mycenaeans – a tomb

13. Mycenaeans’s end is unknown …???? Began to fall apart in 1200 BC Wars?/Invaders? Famine?

14. Mycenaeans Their fall led to the “Dark Age”

15. City-States Polis means city-state Known as the Classical Age (great achievements) Each city state was independent and had its own identity

16. City-States Each city-state was centered around an acropolis or large fortress