What did the Greeks use to travel and trade?
What three products did the Greeks grow themselves?
What three products did the Greeks sell?
Why did the Greeks need to trade?
What were the Greek looking for when they colonized other places?
Why was sea trading difficult?
Why did the Greeks have to use the ocean to travel and trade?
How did the mountains benefit the Greeks?
How did the mountains hurt the Greeks?
Why is trading for food with other people dangerous?
Built fortress cities with thick walls
Peaceful people, no defences
Value strength, wealth, and honor
Buried their dead with treasure
Value art, writing, and culture
Centered in Crete
Violent, warlike people
Wealthy from trade and plunder
Built mall-style cities
Got conquered by the other civilization
What is a Dark Age
What did the Sea Peoples do?
What did the Earthquakes do?
What did the Dorians do?
Why is Homer important?
The Ocean
Grain, Grapes, and Olives
Wine, soap, and olives and olive oil
They did not have enough food in Greece
Living space, pastures for livestock, and farmland
The ocean is dangerous
The mountains were too rugged
Protected them from each other
Infertile land, only 20% of land farm-able
They need to have a surplus and like you.
Mycenaean
Minoan
Mycenaean
Mycenaean
Minoan
Minoan
Mycenaean
Mycenaean
Minoan
Minoan
Time when culture and learning disappear
Interrupt trade
Destroy Mycenaean cities
Invade from the North and displace the Hellenes
His accounts are the only records we have for 400 years