Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece

• From 3000 BCE 1200BCE

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Geography

• Mediterranean Sea
• Island Crete
• Agreeable climate

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Politics - Minoans

• 3000 BCE
• Cities with no walls Knossos.
• Palace
• Government buliding.
• Temple.
• Factory.
• Warehouse.
• Priest-kings.
• Fall? Minotaur?

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Economics - Minoans

• Wheat, barley, grapes, olives.
• Lumber.
• Trade.
• Fishing, farming, cattle.

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Culture - Minoans

• Gender Roles.
• Social Class
• King merchant artisans farmers.
• Polytheism.
• Frescoes.
• Bull-leaping.
• Jewlery, pottery.

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Geography

• Mainland Greece.
• Balkan Penninsula.
• Hilltops.

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Politics - Mycenaeans

• 2000 BCE.
• Priest-Kings.
• Fortified hilltops and megarons.
• Feudalism.
• King landowners tenants.
• 1400 BCE Replace Minoans.
• 1200 BCE Trojan War
• 1100 BCE Dorians

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Economics - Mycenaeans

• Trade with Crete.
• Olives and olive oil.

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Culture - Mycenaeans

• Copy Minoans.
• Social Class
• King-landowners-tenants.

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• The Dorians and the Dark Ages