Notes:
- Greece is a mountainous peninsula, covers 3/4 of Greece
- They had may skilled sailors and shipbuilders, also farmers, metalworkers, weavers and potters
- They had poor/limited natural resources so they needed to trade
- It was difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of this terrain
- They developed small, independent communities (city-states)
- Relative to our size and location-
- North Carolina- 53,318 square miles
- Greece- 50,949 square miles
- Pennsylvania- 46,056 square miles
- Although fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula only about 20% is arable (suitable for farming)
- Greek diet consists of grapes, grains, olives, and fish
- Lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
- Back then, temperatures usually ranged from mid 40s in the winter to low 80s in the summer- although it could get hot in the summer, it was pretty nice year-round
- Mycenaeans- their influence began around 2000 BCE
- Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge on Peloponnesus, protected by a 20-foot thick wall
- Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1100 BCE, controlled trade in the region
- 1400 BCE- Mycenaeans invaded and absorbed Minoan culture (writing system, language, art, politics, literature)
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