Greece,+Giroux

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 * 2,000 islands in Aegean and Ionian Seas
 * Climate= Summer: 48° and Winter: 80°
 * The Sea shaped Greek civilization, just as the rivers did in other civilizations
 * The Greeks didn't live "on" the land but "around" the sea
 * Rarely had to travel more that 85 miles to reach the coastline
 * Seaways linked most parts of Greece and became a way to travel and trade
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Lacked natural resources such as Limber, precious metal, and useable farmland
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mountains covered 3/4 of Greece
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mountains divided land into different regions, influencing the Greek's political life
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Difficult to travel on land
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Tiny, fertile valleys covered 1/4 of Greece
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Little farmland or fresh water for irigation= Greece was never able to support a large population
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">No more that 1 million people lived in Greece at one time
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Because of the differnent regions in Greece, there wasn't a single government
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Developed small, independent communities within each little valley and the surrounding mountians
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Greeks gave loyalty to local communities
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mountians and rocky roads made travel on land difficult
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">People who migrated to Greece in 2,ooo B.C. were later known as Myceneans
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mycenean came from their leading city Mycenea
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mycenea was located in Southern Greece, surrounded by a +20 foot thick wall
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">A warrior king from Mycenea ruled the surrounding villages and farms
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Strong rulers controlled the areas around the Mycenean cities, such as Tiryns and Athens, these kings ruled from about 1600-1100 B.C.
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through contact with the Minoan civilization somtime around 1500 B.C., the Myceneans saw the importance in seaborne trade
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mycenean traders soon traded down the Mediterranean Sea, stopping at the Aegean Islands, Anatolia, and ports in Egypt, Syria, Italy, and Crete
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Myceneans adapted the Minoan writing system to the Greek language and designs to decorate vases
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">The influence developed the core of Greek religion, art, politics, and liturature
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">During 1200 B.C., Mycenans fought a 10 year war with Troy (an independent trading company in Anatolia)
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">The legend of the Trojian War: a Greek army invaded and destroyed Troy because a Trojian Prince had kidnapped Helen, the wife of a Greek King
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">However, in the 1870's, what were thought to be legends, were rethought to be based on actual cities, people, and events
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Further studies in the 20th Century support the German archeologist Heinrick Schliemann
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Not long after the Trojian War, the Mycenean civilization collapsed
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Around 1200 B.C., sea raiders attacked and burned many cities
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Dorians= people who moved into the war-torn contry-side
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">The Dorians spoke in a dialect of the Greeks and may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Greeks
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Dorians were less advanced than the Myceneans
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Soon after their arrival, the economy collapsed and trade stopped
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">During the Dorian age Greeks seened to have lost the art of writing
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">There is no existing written record from the 400 year period between 1150- 750 B.C
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Homer= a great, blind storyteller
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Homer wrote epics (marrative poems celebrating heroic deeds) sometime between 750- 700 B.C.
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">The Trojian War