(Ancient) Greece is the Word

• The world's great civilizations were all mostly located on water
• Great river civilizations(ON TEST)
• Egypt (Nile river)
• Mesopotamia(Tigris+ Euphrates)
• India(Indus River)
• China(Huang He river
• Culture of the mountains and the sea, a geographical look at Greece
• Geography
• Note the significance of Greece's location
• Describe Greece's topography
• look at Greece's surroundings
• How could this effect their culture
• a closer look
• What bodies of water surround Greece
• What large island is to the south/ south-east
• Describe where Athens and Sparta are located relative to the sea, and to each other
• KNOW FOR TEST+LOCATION ON MAP
• Aegean Sea
• Ionian Sea
• Adriatic Sea (it’s just north of the Ionian Sea)
• Peloponnesus
• Athens
• Sparta
• Crete
• Asia Minor
• Macedonia
• Greece is a mountainous peninsula
• Approximately 2000 island in the Ionian and Aegean sea
• they had many skilled sailors, ship builders, farmers, metalworkers, weavers, and potters
• they had little natural resources, so they needed to trade
• it was difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain
• they developed small, independent communities (city-states)
• 15000B.C, The Mycenaean developed the Minoan writing system
• They formed the core of Greek religion, art, politics, an literature.
• They fought a ten year war against troy because they kidnapped Helen, a Greek king's wife.
• After the Trojan war, the Mycenaean civilization collapsed.