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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece. Territory included: Mountainous peninsula Divided Greeks – never unified 1,400 islands W. coast Asia Minor/Anatolia “Did not live on land, but AROUND seas” Seas = Liquid highways Trade very important b/c little resources No timber, precious metals, usable farmland

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Ancient Greece

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  1. Ancient Greece

  2. Territory included: • Mountainous peninsula • Divided Greeks – never unified • 1,400 islands • W. coast Asia Minor/Anatolia • “Did not live on land, but AROUND seas” • Seas = Liquid highways • Trade very important b/c little resources • No timber, precious metals, usable farmland • Ate simple diet grapes, grains, olives • Moderate climate • Winter = 48 degrees F • Summer = 80 degrees F • Most people spent time outside Geography Greece

  3. The Bronze Age: Minoans and Mycenaean's

  4. The Minoan World

  5. Sir Arthur Evans

  6. Excavations at Knossos

  7. Artist’s recreation of Knossos

  8. King Minos

  9. Linear A – (undecipherable)

  10. What do these artifacts tell you about Minoan Culture?

  11. Minoan religion: Goddess worship?

  12. Minoan Religion: Bull Cult?

  13. Bull Jumping

  14. What caused the End of Minoan Civilization?

  15. Mythical Atlantis or Mycenaean's?

  16. Myth of the Minotaur

  17. The Mycenaean World

  18. Heinrich Schliemann

  19. Excavation of Mycenae

  20. Artist Reconstruction of Mycenae

  21. Cyclopean Walls

  22. Lions gate

  23. Shaft Graves

  24. Mask of Agamemnon

  25. Beehive Graves

  26. Linear B: Decipherable

  27. Brutal Combat

  28. The Trojan WarWhat caused the Trojan war?

  29. I Zeus, overthrown by my son… Marriage of Thetis and Peleus

  30. The apple of discord

  31. Who is the fairest of them all… Hera Athena Aphrodite

  32. The bribe: the most beautiful woman Helen of Sparta

  33. 911 there’s a problem… Menelaus Agamemnon

  34. Convincing Odysseus & Achilles to join war… Odysseus Achilles

  35. Help I’m stuck and I can’t get unstuck… Iphigenia

  36. The 10th year… Plague Briseis Death of Patroclus Death of Hector Death of Achilles Death of Paris

  37. Trojan horse: The demise of the Trojans

  38. Helen gets back w/ Menelaus, but they’re stranded in Egypt for 7 years Agamemnon makes it back to Mycenae, but is killed by his wife Clytemnestra with an axe Odysseus wandered the sea for 10 years before returning home to Ithaca The “real” end of the story…

  39. Bronze age enemies?

  40. The 9 layers of Ancient troy Homer’s Troy(VII)

  41. Artist reconstruction of Troy

  42. “Walls” of Ancient troy

  43. The real Walls of Ancient troy

  44. King Priam’s treasure

  45. Minoans Mycenae • Island of Crete • Sir Arthur Evans • King Minos • Peaceful culture? • Palace culture, vivid frescos, bull cult, fishing and trade • Linear A • Minotaur • Greek Mainland • Schliemann • King Agamemnon • Warlike culture • Palace culture, walls and defenses, beehive and shaft graves • Linear B • Troy Summary of Minoans and Mycenaean’s

  46. The Greek Dark Ages (aka Iron Age)

  47. The Dorian Invasion (DORIANS}

  48. Decline in Greek Culture

  49. Geography of greece

  50. Greek City State or Citizen State • “the people” or “the community” The Polis

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