Today we took the Ancient Egypt quiz. I hope I did okay, because I wasn't sure about some of my answers. We also took notes on classical Greece. Here is the vocab from this unit.
Mycenaean: The people who settled on the greek mainland around 2000 BC
Trojan War: A 10 year war that the Mycenaeans fought against Troy
Dorains: A group of people that settled into the war torn countryside after the Trojan War
Homer:A great, blind story teller who wrote long narrative poems
Epics: Narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds
Myths: Traditional stories
Here are my notes so far:
- Ancient Greece consisted of mountainous peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea
- Included about 2,000 islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas
- The Aegean, Ionian, and Black seas were important transportation routes
- Connected Greece with other societies
- Greece lacked natural resources such as timber, precious metals, and usable farmland
- Mountains covered about 3/4 of ancient greece
- Caused different regions to form
- Independent communities within each valley and its surrounding mountains
- Fertile valleys covered about 1/4 of Greece
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