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THE MYCENAEANS. ANCIENT GREEK GEOGRAPHY The sea (Mediterranean, Aegean, and Ionian) is the greatest geographic factor. Sea travel and trade were very important because Greece lacked___________. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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THE MYCENAEANS
ANCIENT GREEK GEOGRAPHY• The sea (Mediterranean, Aegean, and Ionian) is the greatest geographic factor. Sea travel and trade were very important because Greece lacked___________.
• mountains cover ¾ of ancient Greece. Mountain division = different regions. Community loyalty eventually = city states.
• What about population?
• moderate temperatures; how does this affect ancient Greek life?
MYCENAENS• Indo-European origins
• 2000 BC
• fortified city of Mycenae
• around 1500 BC, contact made with Minoans
• Mycenaeans basically copy Minoan civilization
• Minoans= peace and trade; Mycenaeans= war and conquest
• Mycenaeans take over Knossus
MYCENAENS• 1200s BC= Trojan War
• Fact or fiction?
• Heinrich Schliemann (1870s)
• Mycenaen civilization mysteriously collapses (Dorians? Sea peoples?)
• The Greek Dark Age (1150-750 BC- no written record)
• For perhaps the only time in recorded history, an advanced civilization forgot how to write!
MYCENAENS• Enter……..Homer
• Iliad and Odyssey (750-700 BC?)
“MASK OF AGAMEMNON”
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