Notes:
- Sea shaped Greek civilization
- Seaways connected Greece with other societies
- Sea travel and trade were important
- Rugged mountains cover about 3/4 of Greece
- Mountains divided land into regions, this created independent communities
- Hard to travel across land
- Little fertile land and fresh water, hard to use irrigation
- Varied climate, moderate temperatures
- People who settled on the Greek mainland during 2000 B.C. are known as the Mycenaeans
- Mycenae (leading city) was located in Southern Greece
- The city was built to withstand attacks
- Ruled other surrounding villages and farms, also cities such as Tiryns and Athens
- Kings of Mycenaean dominated Greece from about 1600 to 110 B.C.
- Through trade or war Mycenaeans came in contact with the Minoans sometime after 1500 B.C.
- Both civilizations saw the value of seaborne trade
- Minoans influenced the Mycenaeans
- Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Peloponnesus, Athens, Sparta, Crete, Asia Minor, Macedonia
- Greece could not afford to be an isolated civilization due to its geography and inability to grow crops
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