Monday, March 14, 2011

crucible of civilization review

A placed defined by a confluence of powerful, intellectual, Social, economic.
  • Cleisthenes gave more power to other people
  • He was inspired by Greek stories 


Ancient Greece-
  • Geography of Greece
  • Mountainous Peninsula
  • Mountains cover 3/4 of Greece
  • Approximately 1400 Islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas
  • Location shaped its culture 
  • Skilled sailors
  • Poor natural Resources 
  • Difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain; developed small, independent communities 
  • Geography (Continued)
  • Approximately 20% of Greece was suitable for farming
  • Fertile valleys covered 1/4 of peninsula
  • Because of geography the Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, olives 
  • Lack of recourses most likely led to Greek colonization
  • Temperature range from 48 in the winter to 80 in the summers 
  • Mycenaeans 
  • Began around 200 BC
  • Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 ft. thick wall
  • Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600- 1200 BC
  • controlled trade in the region
  • 1400 BC Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language
  • Culture in Decline  
  • Around 1200 BC sea people began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace
  • The Dorians moved into the war torn region
  • far less advanced 
  • Economy collapsed 
  • Writing disappeared for 400 years
  • Homer and Myths
  • Only stories were kept and passed on by word of mouth
  • Homer lived at the end of the "Greek dark ages" 
  • Recorded stories of the Trojan War in the Iliad  The odyssey
  • (Written 750-700 BC)
  • Trojan war was probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaeans 
  • Arete
  • Virture and excellence
  • Epics
  • Narrative poems clebrating heroic deeds
  • Myths were created to explain creation 
  • Zeus: Leader of the gods
  • Hera: Zeus' wife
  • Athena: Goddess of wisdom

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