More Notes:
- Ionian Sea is South of the Adriatic Sea
- Famers, metalworkers, weavers, potters
- 14000 Islands, mountainous plateu
- fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula, 20% arable- suitable for farming
- diet consists of grains, grapes, and olives
- lack of resources most likely led to Greek Civilization because they traded and could sail and travel around trading their wine and olives
- temps = mid. 40s in the winter to low 80s in summer
Mycenaeans:
- their influence began around 2000 BCE
- located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 - foot thick wall
- Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BCE
- controlled trade in the region
- 1400 BCE - invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language
- 1200 BCE- mysterious "sea people" invaded Mycenae and burnt many palaces (the sea people also invaded Egypt)
Dorians:
- moved into the war-torn region
- didn't write down and records for 400 years
- far less advanced
- no trading nor sailing; the trade-based economy collapsed
Homer:
- the storyteller
- Greek oral tradition- stories passed on by talking
- lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Age"
- composed stories on the Trojan War c 750-700 BCE
- The lliad - probably one of the last conquest of the Mycenaeans ( the Trojan War)
- The Odyssey- Odysseus attempt to return home, being thwarted by the angry god of the sea, Poseidon (won a war, was trying to get home to his son and wife)
- The Odyssey is 12,110 lines of rhyme
- Not sure if Homer exist- "Homeric question"- may have been a mythical creation or heroic figure
- lliad and Odyssey may be the culmination of many generations of storytelling
- not sure if the Trojan War happened either
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