More Powerpoint Notes

Today, we continued to take notes on Mr. Schick's powerpoint on Greece.

• Geography + Significance
• fertile valley covers 1/4 of the peninsula
• about 20% is arable (suitable for farming)
• Greek diet: consists of grains, grapes, olives, fish
• lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
• temperature
• the mid-40s
• winter: low 80s
• summer: hot
• Mycenaeans
• influence began 2000 BCE
• Mycenae located on a rocky ridge on Peloponnesus
• protected by 20 ft thick wall
• Mycenaen kings dominated Greece (1600-1100 BCE)
• 1400 BCE: Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture (writing system, language, art, politics, literature, religion)
• "Sea People" & Dorians
• 1200 BCE: mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae + burnt everything
• then, Dorians moved into the war-torn region, dominating 1150-750 BCE
• Dorians were for less advanced
• trade-based economy collapsed
• writing disappeared for 400 years
• Trojan War
• Greeks fought many wars
• Trojan War: fought around 1200 BCE
• part of Greek mythology bc gods + goddess
• Athens, Aphrodite, Hera was given "apple of discord"
• Paris judged Aphrodite as "fairest"
• Aphrodite made Helen fall in love w/ Paris, who took her back to Troy
• people didn't believe if war actually real bc detailed involvement of gods
• Homer the Bard
• Greek oral tradition: stories passed by word
• lived at end of "Greek Dark Ages"
• lliad: possibly last conquests of Mycenaens (the Trojan War)
• Odyssey: Odysseus attempts return home after Trojan War --> being bothered by Posiden
• 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter
• blind --> tell whole stories from head
• might be real???