- The Ionian River is located south of Greece
- The workers of Greece are Sailors, Ship Builders, Farmers, Metal Workers, Weavers, and Potters
- Fertile valleys cover a quarter of the peninsula
- 20% of Greece is suitable for farming
- The main foods that they grew are grains, grapes, and olives
- they made very good wine out of all the grapes they farmed
- the lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
- Mycenaeans influence began around 2000 BC
- Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 foot thick wall
- Mycenaean Kings dominated Greece from 1600-2000 BC
- Mycenaeans invaded Crete and Absor
- Around 1200 BC the mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae, burnt palace after palace
- Dorians moved into this worn-torn region
- They are less advanced
- Trade base economy collapsed
- writing disappeared for 400 years
- Homer
- Greek oral tradition - stories passed on by word of mouth
- He lived at the end of the "Greek dark ages"
- he was blind
- composed lots of stories from Trojan War
- The Iliad - one of last conquests of the Mycenaeans
- The Odyssey - story of Odysseus winning the war, he wanted to get home but Poseidon was mad at him so he wasn't letting Odysseus get home easily
After we took our notes we had some time left in class so Mr. Schick decided to read some of the book Odyssey to us. He was pretending to be Homer so he put glasses on and was acting blind, it was pretty funny.
Thanks for reading, I'll blog back tomorrow.
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