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Today in class we continued to go over the power point. Here is the information that I gathered.

  • fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula
  • 20% if the land is arable 
  • their diet contained of grains, grapes, olives and fish 
  • their lack of resources lead to Greek colonization 
  • the temperature ranged from mid 40s in the winter to low 80s in the summer 
  • MYCENEANS 
    • influence began around 2000 BCE 
    • Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge on Peloponnesus and is protected by a 20 foot thick wall 
    • kings dominate Greece from 1600-1100 BCE 
    • Controlled trade in the region 
  • SEA PEOPLE AND DORIANS 
    • around 1200 BCE the mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace 
    • the Dorians moved into this war-torn region dominating from 1150-750 BCE 
    • Dorians were far less advanced 
    • the trade based economy collapased
    • writings disappeared for 400 years 
    • culture in decline 
  • HOMER 
    • Greek oral tradition 
      • stories passed by the word of mouth 
    • lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages" 
    • he composed stories, known as epics, of the Trojan War 
    • written in dactylic hexameter 
    • he may have been a mythical creation 
    • a blind wandering minstrel
      • heroic figure 
    • Homers stories 
      • The Lliad 
        • probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaeans (Trojan War)
      • The Odyssey 
        • Odysseus attempts to return home after the Trojan War, being thwarted by the angry gods of the sea, Poseidon. 
        • it is 12,110 lines 

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