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The First Greeks
slide 1
The first
Greeks settled
in the areas
colored in
green, purple
and red. They
arrived about
________
40,000
years ago and
lived in caves,
hunting and
Around ___________
6,000 BC
they started to
gathering food.
farm. By 3,000 BC they began to
use bronze.
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The first
inhabitants
of Crete
settled in
about
6000 BC. A
palace at
_________
Knossos
was
excavated in
1894.
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Crete had a highly organized
society by 2,000 BC. There were
________
rtists
skilled craftsmen, a______,
and a
highly organized system of
rade
t________.
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Legend says
that Zeus fell
in love with a
beautiful
princess
named
uropa He
E_____.
took the
shape of a
b____
ull and
swam to Crete
with her on
his back.
slide 3
They had three sons. One of their
sons, M_________,
became king
inos
of C_______,
and his palace was
rete
at K__________.
nossos
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The legend of Theseus says that once a
year the Greeks in Athens were forced
to send young men and women to Crete
as food for a monster called the
Minotaur, who had been born to the wife
of Minos, King of Crete. It lived in a
maze called the L_________,
abyrinth
which was
so confusing that people who entered it
never found a way out. The M________
inotaur
ate people who were thrown into the
maze. Minos’ daughter fell in love with
Theseus and gave him a special sword
and a ball of t______
hread so he could find
his way out of the maze.
Click here to see a map. Locate Athens
and Crete on the map.
slide 4
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slide 5
Frescoes,
such as this
man leaping
on the back of
a bull, are
found on
p______
alace walls
in Crete.
was
Minos’
and
AHint:
fresco iswho
made by
applying
paint tofather,
wet plaster.
It seems
that teams of young men and women approached a charging
bull. One after the other grasped its h____,
orns leaped onto its
back,
then to the
ground. Many experts believe this was a
metandMinos’
mother?)
r________
eligious ritual because the bull was a sacred animal.
Why do you think the bull was a sacred animal?
what did he look like when he first
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slide 6
In about 1,450 BC all
the palaces on Crete
were destroyed. A
olcanic
v_________
eruption
on the island of Thera,
about 70 miles north
of Crete, blasted most
of Thera away,
causing tidal waves,
earth tremors,
flooding and
destruction of
c_____
rops on Crete. In about 1,450 BC, Crete was invaded by
people from mainland Greece known as the M_____________.
ycenaeans
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From about
1,600-1,100 BC
mainland Greece
was d_________
ominated
by a people
called the
Mycenaeans.
Note to the teacher: See the note created for you in the edit mode “Notes” box.
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The
ycenaeans
M___________
lived in small
k_________.
Their
ingdoms
name comes from
the city of
Mycenae, where
remains of their
culture were first
iscovered
d____________.
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The Mycenaeans
rebuilt the palace at
K_______
nossos on the
island of Crete, and
became the new
rulers of the island.
Although they were divided into small kingdoms, the
Mycenaeans were linked by their c_________.
They
ulture
all spoke an early form of Greek, and shared a
eliefs
common way of life and religious b_______.
Odysseus was one of these Mycenaeans who ruled a
thaca
small kingdom in I______.
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Odysseus was the
famous leader who
supposedly came up
with the idea of the
T_________
h_______.
rojan
orse
Ithaca
Troy
Some believe that Odysseus
supposedly lived around 1,860
BC. Go to the website below and
write a paragraph explaining
how people came up with this
date.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus)
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The
Mycenaeans’
economic life
worked well as
long as they had
good harvests.
By looking at
the diagram on
the right,
explain the
sequence of events that would happen to their
economic system if they had bad harvests.
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slide 12
By 1,200 BC, the
Mycenaean
world was
breaking up.
They
experienced a
series of poor
h________,
arvests food
shortages and
then famine
_______. (A
famine is when
people starve
because they don’t
have enough food.)
The Mycenaeans left mainland Greece and settled in other
parts around the M_______________
Sea. (Extra credit:
editerranean
turn in a sheet of paper diagramming the cause and effects
mentioned on slide 12.)
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These
Mycenaeans
became known as
ea People.
the S___
They came into
conflict with the
E____________,
gyptians
the Hittites, and
others who lived
in the places
where the
Mycenaeans wanted
to s_____.
ettle
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slide 14
The period from 1,100800 BC is known as the
D_____
A_____
ges of
ark
Greece because we
know very little about
what happened during
that time. Many farming
communities were
destroyed during
disturbances at the end of the Mycenaean period. The
Mycenaean cities were abandoned. A tribe of people
known as the D________
orians
became the dominant Greeks
of the area.
What was the dominant Greek group before the Dark
Ages?
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There are no written records
from the Dark Ages, but the
people had a strong
o____________.
ral tradition
Professional poets, known
as b_____,
ards traveled widely,
passing on the stories of the
gods and the Mycenaean
heroes, such as Odysseus.
One of these bards was
omer who wrote the Iliad
H______,
and the Odyssey.
If you have seen the Disney cartoon version of Robin Hood, think about the rooster who
sings and tells the story of Robin Hood. He represents a “bard” Click the speaker
to hear the song.
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The period from 800-500 BC is called the A_________
rchaic
Period of Greece. It was a time of progress and
-discovered
expansion. Writing was re____________.
The Greeks
added vowels to their system. From whom did they get
that idea? ______________
The Phoenicians
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Locate Ithaca, Crete, Sparta, Athens, the Mediterranean Sea and
Troy on the map below. Use your book, the slide show, or the
Internet. Du e Date:
_______________________________________
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Credits:
The Greeks by Susan Peach, Anne Billard,
illustrated by Ian Jackson, The Usborne
Illustrated World History, published by EDC
Publinshing, Tulsa, OK, 1990
PowerPoint by Marie Sontag, [email protected]
http://www.timetrek.org