ANCIENT GREECE Chapter 4 - CCUSD 93 · flourished from 1600 BCE –1100 BCE ... •Made up of...
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Discuss with your table
groups what you observe in
this geographical map of
Greece
How might geography have
affected ancient Greek
development?
MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION
Mycenaeans: Indo-Europeans who settled on Greek mainland and flourished from 1600 BCE – 1100 BCE
• Named after their main city Mycenae
• Made up of loosely-allied monarchies
• Prided themselves as heroic warriors
Trojan War: fought by Mycenaeans against the city of Troy in 1200 BCE
GREEK IN THE DARK AGE
Dark Age (Greece): Period of ~400 years after the Mycenaeans collapsed where few records of what happened exist
• Population declined; food production dropped
• Use of iron helped reverse decline in food production
• Greeks adopt Phoenician alphabet
HOMER
• Oral tradition grows, especially epics
oEpic: long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero
• Homer: Blind creator of the Iliad and the Odyssey
• Homer’s epics viewed as history, not fiction to the ancient Greeks
• Homer’s epics taught values of courage and honor called Arete
oArete: excellence of any kind