Greece powerpoint Notes

Today we talked about Greece and Homer. Homer was a blind man who wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey. We heard 20 mins of the Odyssey and the story sounded very pleasant. Greek writing and there sense of story telling is very interesting.

Ancient Greece is the Word

 Mesopotamia- Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Egypt- Nile
India- Indus
China- Huang He

 Culture of the Mountain and the Sea

 Medi- Middle
Terranean- Land
Middle of the Earth

  • What bodies of water surround Greece?
    • Aegean, Ionian, Adriatic Sea
  • What large island is to south/southeast?
    • Crete


Peloponnesus- the land that barely connects Greece


Greece Geography/ Significance

  • Mountainous peninsula- 3/4 of Greece
  • 2,000 islands > Ionian and Aegean Sea
    • this combination shaped Greece's culture
      • they had many skilled sailors and shipbuilders
      • also farmers, metal workers, weavers, potters
  • They had poor/limited natural resources, so they needed to trade
  • It was difficult to unite Greeks because of terrain
  • They developed small, independent, communities (city-states) that's who they were loyal too
  • Peloponnesus war--- Athens vs. Sparta---Civil War
SIZE

  • North Carolina: 53,818 sq mi
  • GREECE: 50, 949 sq mi --- small in size, HUGE in influence
  • Pennsylvania: 46, 056 sq mi
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  • arable- suitable for farming
  • 1/5 acres is good for farming
  • Greeks were very healthy
  • Minoans- lived in Crete
  • When Mycenaeans invaded the Minoans, they absorbed they're culture

Dorians (Greek Dark Ages)
  • less advanced 
  • collapsed trade-based economy
  • writing disappeared for 400 years
  • 1200 BC: mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae and burnt places


HOMER 
  •  The Illiad- story of the Trojan War
  • The Odyssey- Odysseus wins Trojan War, but is thwarted by Poseidon, god of the sea
    • 12,100 lines
    • Dactylic hexameter

  • Did Homer Really Exist?
    •  the "Homeric Question" - Homer may have been a mythical creation himself
    • a blind wandering ministrel; an heroic figure
    • Illiad and Odyssey may be combination of many generation story telling. 

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