The First Greeks slide 1

1. The First Greeksslide 1 The first Greeks settled in the areas colored in green, purple and red. They arrived about ________ years ago and lived in caves, hunting and gathering food. 40,000 Around ___________ they started to farm. By 3,000 BC they began to use bronze. 6,000 BC

2. The First Greeks slide 2 The first inhabitants of Crete settled in about 6000 BC. A palace at _________ was excavated in 1894. Crete had a highly organized ________ by 2,000 BC. There were skilled craftsmen, a______, and a highly organized system of t________. society Knossos rtists rade

3. The First Greeks slide 3 Legend says that Zeus fell in love with a beautiful princess named E_____. He took the shape of a b____ and swam to Crete with her on his back. uropa They had three sons. One of their sons, M_________, became king of C_______, and his palace was at K__________. ull inos rete nossos

4. The First Greeks slide 4 The legend of Theseus says that once a year the Greeks in Athens were forced to send young men and women to Crete as food for a monster called the Minotaur, who had been born to the wife of Minos, King of Crete. It lived in a maze called the L_________, which was so confusing that people who entered it never found a way out. The M________ ate people who were thrown into the maze. Minos’ daughter fell in love with Theseus and gave him a special sword and a ball of t______ so he could find his way out of the maze. Click here to see a map. Locate Athens and Crete on the map. abyrinth inotaur hread

5. The First Greeks slide 5 Frescoes, such as this man leaping on the back of a bull, are found on p______ walls in Crete. alace Hint: who was Minos’ father, and what did he look like when he first met Minos’ mother?) A fresco is made by applying paint to wet plaster. It seems that teams of young men and women approached a charging bull. One after the other grasped its h____, leaped onto its back, and then to the ground. Many experts believe this was a r________ ritual because the bull was a sacred animal. Why do you think the bull was a sacred animal? orns eligious

6. The First Greeks slide 6 In about 1,450 BC all the palaces on Crete were destroyed. A v_________ eruption on the island of Thera, about 70 miles north of Crete, blasted most of Thera away, causing tidal waves, earth tremors, flooding and destruction of olcanic c_____ on Crete. In about 1,450 BC, Crete was invaded by people from mainland Greece known as the M_____________. rops ycenaeans

7. The First Greeks slide 7 From about 1,600-1,100 BC mainland Greece was d_________ by a people called the Mycenaeans. ominated Note to the teacher: See the note created for you in the edit mode “Notes” box.

8. The First Greeks slide 8 The M___________ lived in small k_________. Their name comes from the city of Mycenae, where remains of their culture were first d____________. ycenaeans ingdoms iscovered

9. slide 9 The First Greeks The Mycenaeans rebuilt the palace at K_______ on the island of Crete, and became the new rulers of the island. nossos Although they were divided into small kingdoms, the Mycenaeans were linked by their c_________. They all spoke an early form of Greek, and shared a common way of life and religious b_______. Odysseus was one of these Mycenaeans who ruled a small kingdom in I______. ulture eliefs thaca

10. The First Greeks slide 10 Odysseus was the famous leader who supposedly came up with the idea of the T_________ h_______. rojan orse Ithaca Some believe that Odysseus supposedly lived around 1,860 BC. Go to the website below and write a paragraph explaining how people came up with this date.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus) Troy

11. The First Greeks slide 11 The Mycenaeans’ economic life worked well as long as they had good harvests. By looking at the diagram on the right, explain the sequence of events that would happen to their economic system if they had bad harvests.

12. The First Greeks slide 12 By 1,200 BC, the Mycenaean world was breaking up. They experienced a series of poor h________, food shortages and then f_______. (A famine is when people starve because they don’t have enough food.) arvests amine The Mycenaeans left mainland Greece and settled in other parts around the M_______________ Sea. (Extra credit: turn in a sheet of paper diagramming the cause and effects mentioned on slide 12.) editerranean

13. The First Greeks slide 13 These Mycenaeans became known as the S___ People. They came into conflict with the E____________, the Hittites, and others who lived in the places where the ea gyptians Mycenaeans wanted to s_____. ettle

14. The First Greeks slide 14 The period from 1,100-800 BC is known as the D_____ A_____ of Greece because we know very little about what happened during that time. Many farming communities were destroyed during ges ark disturbances at the end of the Mycenaean period. The Mycenaean cities were abandoned. A tribe of people known as the D________ became the dominant Greeks of the area. What was the dominant Greek group before the Dark Ages? orians

15. The First Greeks slide 15 There are no written records from the Dark Ages, but the people had a strong o____________. Professional poets, known as b_____, traveled widely, passing on the stories of the gods and the Mycenaean heroes, such as Odysseus. One of these bards was H______, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. ral tradition ards omer If you have seen the Disney cartoon version of Robin Hood, think about the rooster whosings and tells the story of Robin Hood. He represents a “bard” Click the speaker to hear the song.

16. The First Greeks slide 16 rchaic The period from 800-500 BC is called the A_________ Period of Greece. It was a time of progress and expansion. Writing was re____________. The Greeks added vowels to their system. From whom did they get that idea? ______________ -discovered The Phoenicians

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18. The First Greeks slide 17 Credits: The Greeks by Susan Peach, Anne Billard, illustrated by Ian Jackson, The Usborne Illustrated World History, published by EDC Publinshing, Tulsa, OK, 1990 PowerPoint by Marie Sontag, mesontag@hotmail.com http://www.timetrek.org