Test Day!!! Greece

Today in class, we took a test. I did not do as well as I thought I would. We are moving on to Greece now. Below are some of the notes from the book.

• Ancient Greece consisted mainly of a mountainous peninsula and jutting on the Mediterranean Sea; the sea shaped Greek civilization.
• In a sense, the Greeks didn't live on land, but around sea.
• The Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Black Sea acted as important transportation routes.
• Sea trade was very important because the Greeks lacked natural resources.
• 3/4 of ancient Greece was rugged mountains.
• Instead of a single government, the Greeks developed small independent communities within each little valley and the mountain that separates it from the rest of the country.
• Because of the uneven terrain, it made land transportation hard.
• there were not many roads; the roads that they did have were mostly made up of dirt.
• The mountains also made farming difficult (very few fertile valleys for farming).
• Because of the farming difficulty, Greece was never able to support a large population.
• In the summer, the 80-degree (Fahrenheit) weather allowed the Greeks to hang outside.
• Mycenaeans- a group of people (Indo-European) who settled in Greece were from Mycenae which is located in southern Greece.
• Mycenae is surrounded by a protective wall keeping enemies out, and the Mycenaean rulers controlled cities like Athens.
• The Mycenaeans came into contact with the Minoans.
• They saw the value of seaborne trade and traveled throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
• They adapted the Minoan writing system to the Greek language, and decorated vases with Minoan designs.
• This art was the beginning of the Greek religious practice.