Second day of class

Today in class we continued to take notes from pages 118-126. This is the information that I gathered:

  • mountains run mainly from northwest to southeast 
  • the mountains divided the land and influenced the political life 
  • they had small independent communities 
  • dirt paths were their roads 
  • the land was very stony 
  • little fertile farmland or freshwater was available for irrigation 
  • Greece was unable to support a large population 
  • they had a very varying climate 
  • men spent most of their time at outdoor public events
  • Mycenaeans migrated in 2000 BC 
    • located in Southern Greece 
    • had very strong rulers who dominated Greece from 1600-1100BC 
    • learned the importance of seaborne trade
  • Minoans influenced the Mycenaeans 
  • Trojan War 
    • it happened in 1200 BC 
    • Mycenaeans fought a 10 year war against Troy 
    • Greek army destroyed Troy because a Trojan prince took the wife of a Greek King
  • Dorians migrated to Greece 
    • less advanced than the Mycenaeans 
  • They learned from oral tradition 
    • Their greatest story teller was Homer 
  • Greeks developed many myths 
Then, we went back to the powerpoint and took notes on that. Here is the information that I gathered from it: 
  • Be able to identify the following on a map 
    • Aegean Sea 
    • Ionian Sea 
    • Adriatic Sea 
    • Pelopenesus 
    • Athens 
    • Sparta 
    • Crete 
    • Asia Minor 
    • Macedonia
  • Greece is a mountainous peninsula 
  • mountains cover three fourths of the land 
  • approximately 2000 islands in the Ionian and Aegean Sea 
  • this combination shaped Greece's culture 
  • they had many skilled sailors and shipbuilders, also farmers, metal workers, weavers and potters 
  • they had very poor and very limited natural resources
    • this made them trade with other countries 
  • it was difficult to unite the ancient Greeks due to the terrain 
  • they developed small independent communities (city-states) 
    • thats who they were loyal to
  • here is the size comparison 
    • North Carolina 
      • 53,818 sq miles 
    • Greece 
      • 50,949 sq miles 
    • Pennsylvania 
      • 46,056 sq miles 
        • this shows that Greece was small in size but they had a huge influence 

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