March 14,2011

1. 3/4 of Greece is mountains
2. About 1,400 islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas
3. They had skilled sailors
4. Poor natural resources
5. Developed small independent communities
6. Only 20% suitable for farming
7. Fertile valleys covered 1/4 of peninsula
8. Ate grapes, grain, and olives
9. Lack of recourses led to Greek colonization
10. Temperature ranges from 48 in the winter to 80 in the summer
11. Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge protected by a 20 ft. thick wall
12. Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 B.C. 
13. 1400 B.C. Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language
14. 1200 B.C. sea people began to invade Mycenae and burnt palaces
15. The Dorians economy collapsed and they were less advanced, they moved in war-torn regions
16. Homer lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages"
17. Homer recorded stories of the Trojan War in the Illiad and the Odyssey
18. Arete mean virtual excellence 
19. Epics are narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds
20. Myths were  created to explain creation
21. Zeus- leader of the Gods
22. Hera- Zeus's wife
23. Athena- God of Wisdom