Transcript ANCIENT GREECE - Castle High School

ANCIENT
GREECE
GREEK GEOGRAPHY
•BALKAN PENINSULA
•IONIAN SEA / AEGEAN SEA / MEDITERRANEAN SEA
•NO POINT OF GREECE IS MORE THAN 50 MILES FROM
SEA
TRADERS, FISHERMEN
•¾’s OF GREECE IS MOUNTAINS
HARD TO UNITE
MINOAN CIVILIZATION
WHEN:
3000 BC – 145O BC
WHERE:
ISLAND OF CRETE
NAMED AFTER:
KING MINOS
DISCOVERED BY:
SIR ARTHUR EVANS (1900)
MINOAN CULTURE /
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
EXCELLENT TRADERS
PALACE AT KNOSSOS
NO WALLS
MT. IDA – BIRTHPLACE OF ZEUS
King Minos – son of Zeus
TOREADOR FRESCO
Bull Jumping
LINEAR A
Fall of minoan
civilization
1)VOLCANIC ERUPTION / EARTHQUAKE / TSUNAMI
2)CONQUERED BY MYCEANAEANS
MYCEANAEN
CIVILIZATION
WHEN:
1400 BC – 1200 BC
WHERE:
MAINLAND GREECE
COPIED A LOT OF MINOAN CULTURE
CONQUERED BY DORIANS
BEGINNING OF “DARK AGES”