Greece

• very mountainess
• Aproximately 1,400 islands in the Angean and lonian seas
• location shaped its culture
• skilled sailors
• poor natural resources
• difficlt to unit the Anciant Greaks becuase of the terrain'developed small,independent comunities.
• aproximaltey 205 suitlable for farming
• dertile valleys cover 1/4 of the peninsula
• becuase g geogrphy the grrek diet consists of grains,grapes and olives
• lack od resources most likely led to greek colonization
• temperatures range from 48 in winter to 80 in the summer
• its modern
• its temprate

Myceneneans

• began ariyb 2000 bc
• located ob a rocky rdge and proteected b a 20 feet wall
• dominbated greece from 1600-1200 bc
• 1400 they invade crete qnd  mnioan culture and language

Culture in decline

• around 1200 bc sea people bagan t invade mysenea  and burnt after placeth dorians moved into the war-torn region
• far less advanced
• economy collapsed
• writingdissapeared for 40 years there  

Homer and myths

• stories passed with oral presentation
• homer lived ingreak dark aeges
• Recorded the stoy of the trojan war lliad and the odessy
•  homer was blind

Arete
virtue-and excellance
epics-narrative poems celebratating heroic deeds
myths were created to explain creation
-zeus: leader of the gods
-hera: zeus' wife
-Athena: godess of wisdom