- Mountainous Peninsula: Mountains Cover 3/4 of land
- Approximatively 1,400 islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas
- Location Shaped it's culture
- Skilled Sailors
- Poor Natural Resources
- Difficult to unite the Ancient Greeks because of the terrain; developed small independent communities.
- Approximatively 20 percent suitable for farming
- Fertile Valleys cover a quarter of the peninsula
- Because of geography the Greeks diet consists of grains, grapes, olives
- Lack of resources most likely led to Greeks colonizations
- Temperatures range from 48 in the winter to 80 in the summer.
Mycenaens:
- Began around 2000 b.c.
- Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 ft wall.
- Mycenaen kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 B.C.
- 1400 B.C. Mycenaens invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language.
Culture in Decline:
- Around 1200 B.C. sea people began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace
- The Dorians moved into the war-torn region: Far less advanced, Economy collapsed, and Writing disappeared for 400 years.
Homer and Myths
- Only stories were kept and passed on by word of mouth.
- Homer lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Age"
- Recorded stories of the Trojan war in the Iliad and the Odyssey (written 750-700 B.C.): Trojan war was probably one of the last conquests Mycenaens.
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