Today in class we went over the slideshow again and we learned a few new things.
- All of the worlds greatest civilizations are located near bodies of water
- India/Indus River
- China/Huang He river
- Egypt/The Nile
- Mesopotamia/ Tigris+Euphrates
- the bodies of water that surround Greece are...
- Aegean Sea
- Ionian Sea
- Adriatic Sea
- the large island south of Greece is Crete
- most cities controlled 50-500 square miles of land
- cities often had fewer than 10,000 people
- rulers and commoners did not get along
- tyrants were sometimes helpful, unlike today
- Draco took power in 621
- he developed a legal code
- code dealt with. criminals harshly
- upheld slavery
- Solon came to power in 594
- stated that citizens should not own other citizens
- shared concepts of pressing charges, voting, and that only high class officials can rule
- around 1200 B.C.E the Mycenaeans were conquered by the "Sea people"
- Dorians moved in around 1150 B.C.E
- there was no writing for 400 years
- Homer told stories around Greece
- the Iliad - about the trojan war
- the Odyssey - Poseidon tries to stop Odessius from returning home
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