geography issues: islands mountains height of minoan civilization of crete 1600-1500 bc 1400 bc...

Ancient Greece

Geography Issues:

Islands Mountai

ns

Height of Minoan Civilization of Crete1600-1500

BC 1400 BC

Minoans Disappear Mycenaean Civilization

develops

1250 BC

Trojan War: Helen or

economics?

1100 BCGreek Dark

Ages “Dorian Invasion”

750 BCLife of Homer

Bull of Knossos

The Earliest Greeks: The Mycenaeans

Is this real? Found by Heinrich SchliemannGreeks didn’t facial hair like this Nothing else like this has been found

Some say it’s too close for comfort

The Funeral Mask of Agamemnon

?

Blind poetRetold/had written down The Iliad & The

Odyssey Other stories & hymns as well

Gives us:Description of godsDetails of lifeImportant values

Greek ReligionPolytheistic Mt. Olympus Gods took on human qualities Stories help explain the natural world

Homer

Family Tree of the Greek Gods

City-States—Individual kingdoms or govs within a city

“Polis”

THE ACROPOLIS: “high city"  Fortress Located on high ground Offered refuge to the people in times of danger.Political Center

Set up of a City-State

AGORA:  The market place near the acropoliscenter of city life  Helped connect the people of the city states

Set up of a City-State

GYMNASIUM & THEATRE: Sports and theater part of

religious ritual

TEMPLE:   Every city had a patron

god Temples were built to

honor & as places of worship . 

Set up of a City-State

The Parthenon of Athens

Athens & Sparta: Two different city-states