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• Greece


  • Southeastern Europe
  • Mountainous peninsula

  
• Early Greeks


  • Farmers
  • Fishermen
  • Traders
• Products of Greece


  • Oil
  • Olives
  • Wine
• Ionian Sea


  Sea surrounding Greece
• Aegean Sea


  Sea surrounding Greece
• Mediterranean Sea


  Sea surrounding Greece
• Climate of Greece


  • Hot summers
  • Mild winters
• Hellas


  Entire land of Ancient Greece
• Olympics


  1. Started 776 BC

  2. Held every 4 years

  3. Stopped for 1500 years

  4. Started again during 1896

  5. Winners receive olive wreaths
• Polis


  • Independent city-state
  • Self-governing
  • Ruled by aristocrats and kings
  • Small and isolated
• Monarchy


  Ruled by a king or a queen
• Oligarchy


  Ruled by a group of oligarch (wealthy people)
• Acropolis


  • Highest polis in Greece
  • Temple
  • Fortress

  
• Agora


  • Open area in the middle of the city where Greeks could gather and sell products
  • Market
• The Olympic events


  In the ancient Greek Olympics there were

  many events. These consisted of javelin, discus, wrestling, Chariot racing, Boxing, Horse racing,

  Long jump, Running and the great Pentathlon.
• Minoan Civilization


  Flourished and declined
• King of Crete


  King Minos
• Europa

  Phoenician Princess of Argos, Mother of King Minos, Abducted by Zeus
• Zeus


  Greek God of Sky and Thunder, Transformed himself into a white Cretan bull
• Sir Arthur Evans


  British Archaeologist, Pioneer of Aegean Civilization, Unearthed the Palace of Knossos in Greece
• Palace of Knossos


  • Contained 800 rooms
  • Rooms connected by courtyards and corridors
  • Served as royal residence, temple, storeroom and government center
  • Had no defensive walls
• Fresco


  Technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid wet lime plaster
• Linear A


  No texts have yet been deciphered
• Linear B


  Can be deciphered
• John Chadwick


  English Linguist
• Principality


  A state ruled by a prince/monarch
• Economic Activities of Minoans


  1. Traded with Fertile Crescent and learned its culture

  2. Learned to make bronze from Sumerians

  3. Built ships from oak and cedar and sailed as far as Egypt and Syria

  4. Exchanged olive oil, pottery, honey, and wine for gold, precious stones, grain, and linen
• Minoan Palaces


  • Composed of storerooms, workrooms, and living quarters
• Minoan Art


  • Based on ocean creatures, play and religion, rather than warfare
  • Brightly colored frescoes in the Palace of Knossos with people, ocean creatures and bulls

  
• Minotaur


  Monster with the body of a man and head and tail of a bull
• Minotaur's story


  1. In order to conceal the affair of his wife King Minos let the Minotaur live under the Palace of Knossos

  2. Every 9 years, 7 young boys and 7 young girls were sacrificed to the Minotaur
• Theseus


  Son of King Aegeus, volunteered for the third tribute of youths and boasted to slay the Minotaur
• Ariadne


  Daughter of King Minos, fell deeply in love with Theseus, begged Daedalus to help Theseus escape the Labyrinth
• Ariadne helped Theseus


  She handed Theseus a ball of thread to guide him out of the Labyrinth
• MICHAEL VENTRIS


  CRYPTOLOGIST
• Semetic


  Western Asian people who lived throughout ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa

  At the height of its economic and political power, Crete is composed of a number of principalities, each dominated by a great palace
• Minoan


  The natives of Crete were

  probably Semetic People
• livelihood


  • Fishing and Trading

  • Pots and weapons
• Minoan Art


  Bull jumping was a sport in which young men and women vaulted over a live bull.
• Mycenaeans


  Indo-Europeans who traded with the Minoans