1 / 8

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece. I. Geography. Smashed pieces (like a smashed cookie) some pieces floated around some piece jut out as peninsulas = body of land surrounded on 3 sides by water Most of Greece is mountainous and bad for farming Only 1/5 is useable, forces them to be traders and sailors.

raoul
Download Presentation

Ancient Greece

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Ancient Greece

  2. I. Geography • Smashed pieces (like a smashed cookie) some pieces floated around some piece jut out as peninsulas = body of land surrounded on 3 sides by water • Most of Greece is mountainous and bad for farming • Only 1/5 is useable, forces them to be traders and sailors. • Islands and land islands separate Greece - like separate countries • each felt own customs and beliefs were best • would fight for their beliefs - even though they were alike (like siblings)

  3. II. Minoans • Civilization during the Bronze Age from 3000-1100 BC • Lived on Crete with access to the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Sea

  4. Very little known about Minoans other than: • Broad sea trade • Very successful based on remains • They were militarily weak as they were easily beaten up and declined • focused on trade,

  5. III. Mycenaeans • Would take over most of the Minoan empire • Traded but also did some empire building • Mixed cultures and spoke an early form of Greek

  6. IV. Trojan War • Great Greek Myth - Doesn’t really happen

  7. A. Epic = a long story-telling poem • Iliad and Odyssey. Stories of gods, goddesses, the war, and the aftermath. credited to Homer • Story of Helen “Face that launched a thousand ships” and the Greeks that attack Troy to get her back. • Most agree it did not happen like Homer said, if at all • Scholars believe if Troy really existed it was destroyed by fire in the 1200s B.C. (maybe by the Greeks)

More Related