Geography shapes Greek life
- Greece included over 2,000 islands in the Ionian and Aegean Sea
The Sea
- In a sense, the Greeks lived around a sea, not on land
- Seas were important transportation for the Greeks
- The Sea linked Greece
- Greeks became skilled sailors
- Greece lacked natural resources, valuable metals, and farmland
The land
- mountains covered 75% of Greece
- Greeks developed small, independent governments
- small parts of land were arable
- Greece could only support as a small population
Mycenaean- people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C.
Trojan War- A ten-year war against Troy.
Dorian- People who settled in Greece after the Mycenaeans
Homer- Greatest greek writer
Epic- Short story about heroic deeds
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