1. Daily Starter
The first written code of law was written by which king of Babylon?
A. Hammurabi
B. Sargon
C. King Tut
D. Nebuchadnezzar

2. The Ancient Greeks
Early Greece

3. Early Greek Cultures
Between 3000 B.C. and 1000 B.C., four cultures flourished on the Greek islands and the mainland shores known as the __________, the _________, the ____________, and the ________ cultures.
Cycladic
Minoan
Mycenaean
Trojan

4. The Cycladic Culture
The Cyclades are a group of about 200 islands located east of the Greek mainland in the southern ____________.
Aegean Sea

5. The Cycladic Culture
The Cycladic people made their living by _______ or _______. Others were farmers who grew _______, ______, and other crops.
fishing
trading
grapes
olives

6. The Cycladic Culture
After about 2000 B.C. the Cycladic culture weakened and people began to follow the customs and traditions of the ___________, or more powerful, neighboring cultures.
dominant

7. How do archeologists know about the people of the Cycladic culture?
By studying Cycladic artifacts

8. The Minoan Culture Minoan
_________ culture began on the large island of ________ in about 2700 B.C.
Crete

9. The Minoan Culture mythology
A ____________ is a collection of myths, or traditional stories, handed down from generation to generation

10. What do myths explain?
How things in nature or human events came to be.

11. The Minoan Culture
From the wall paintings at Knossos, archeologists have learned that the Minoans were expert _________.
sailors

12. The Minoan Culture
Using a process they learned from Asian civilizations, Minoans mixed copper and tin to form ________. They made weapons, tools and bowls from bronze and other metals.
bronze

13. The Minoan Culture
The Minoans had a counting and writing system for keeping records. To count, they used a _________________, a system on the number 10. Their writing system used _____________ written on clay tablets to stand for the __________ in words
decimal system
pictographs
sounds

15. The Mycenaean Culture Mycenaean
The ______________ culture became the dominant culture throughout the Aegean region by the 1500s B.C.

16. The Mycenaean Culture
Through _______, the Mycenaeans learned Minoan ways and adapted them to fit their own culture. For example, they adopted the Minoan __________, _______, and ______________________.
The Mycenaeans were more ____________ than the Minoans.
trade
art styles
writing
constructing palaces
warlike

17. The Trojan Culture Trojan
The _______ culture was centered in the ancient city of _____, in Asia Minor.
Troy

19. The Trojan Culture
Troy’s location was __________, or of great importance, because of its location on a high point on a strait that connects the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara. It allowed passage to the Black Sea for ________ and __________.
strategic
warfare
trading

20. Great works by Homer
Today, people learn about Troy from stories that are a part of world literature including the ______ and the _________, written by the Greek poet Homer.
Iliad
Odyssey

21. The Life of a Hero
epic
An ________ is a long poem that tells about the important events in the life of a hero or heroes

22. The Trojan Horse
To capture the city of Troy, Homer says that Odysseus ordered workers to build a huge, hollow _______________ and for the soldiers to hide inside
wooden horse