stable food source agriculture apples peaches cherries apricots olives grapes meats/hunting ...
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By: Devon Kelly, Kylie Barris,
Zachery Birkbeck, and Nibras Khan
Period 29/24/13
Land of the Trojan horse
Stable Food Source
Agriculture Apples Peaches Cherries Apricots Olives Grapes
Meats/Hunting Pork Lamb Beef Kids (baby goats) Chicken (much later) NEVER DOGS Seafood (mostly
Shell Fish)
Ruled by a king King is chosen by claiming to be descendants
of Aeneas Aristocrats did have power to overthrow king
1. 800 BCE- ruled by a king2. 750 BCE- ruled by a council3. 500 BCE- ruled by a democracy
Government
Hades: God of the underworld Ares: God of war Aphrodite: Goddess of love Athena: Goddess of wisdom Hera: Queen of the gods Poseidon: God of the sea Zeus: King of the Gods Hawk and lion symbol of power
Religion
The lower class people lived in mud-brick
houses There were sanctuary's for praying Bed rock wall surrounded the city and
protected the Trojans from earth quakes There were work shops where black smiths
and potters worked In the middle of troy was the administrative
and religious center It was surrounded by a fortification wall
Architecture
There were basically mainly two types- free
people and slaves Also, Citizens and Metis
1. Citizens were true citizens who were born into the city-states
2. Metis were people who were not born in the city-states, could not own land, houses etc.
3. Social ladder only applied to men
Social Structure
Used Greek language Wrote on clay tablets They also wrote of papyrus Only higher class people knew how to write The used writing for important rituals
Writing
The Trojan War
1. Trojan war started (or is believed to have started) when the Queen of Sparta was kidnapped by Paris- the son of the king of Troy- according to Homer’s Iliad
The Trojan Horse1. The Spartans made a giant horse filled with Spartan soldiers,
and when the Trojans accepted it in into their kingdom, the Spartan soldiers got out, opened the gates and the Spartans attacked the Trojans and ended the war
The story of the three goddesses and the apple (Story is set in Troy)
1. Eris, goddess of discord and strife, was not invited to King Pelias’s wedding, so she threw a golden apple at Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera. It was meant for the fairest. It is up to the Paris to decide who gets the apple
Legacy