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• Mycenaean located in southern Greece on a steep, rocky ridge and surrounded by a protective wall more than 20 feet thick. The fortified city of Mycenae could withstand almost any attack.
• Trojan War the Mycenaeans fought a ten-year war against Troy, an independent trading city located in Anatolia. According to legend, a Greek army besieged and destroyed Troy because a Trojan prince had kidnapped Helen, the beautiful wife of a Greek king.
•Dorian group of people who moved into the waitron countryside. The Dorians spoke a dialect of Greek and may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Greeks.
• Homer Homer composed his epic sometime between 750 and 700 B.C. Greatest storyteller who was a blindman.
• epic narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds
• myth traditional stories, about their gods.
• Mycenaean located in southern Greece on a steep, rocky ridge and surrounded by a protective wall more than 20 feet thick. The fortified city of Mycenae could withstand almost any attack.
• Trojan War the Mycenaeans fought a ten-year war against Troy, an independent trading city located in Anatolia. According to legend, a Greek army besieged and destroyed Troy because a Trojan prince had kidnapped Helen, the beautiful wife of a Greek king.
•Dorian group of people who moved into the waitron countryside. The Dorians spoke a dialect of Greek and may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Greeks.
• Homer Homer composed his epic sometime between 750 and 700 B.C. Greatest storyteller who was a blindman.
• epic narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds
• myth traditional stories, about their gods.
2. Which of the cultures on your chart do you think contributed the most to Greek culture?
the most important cultures on the chart was the Mycenaean adaptation of Minoan culture because this shaped their whole lifestyle.
the most important cultures on the chart was the Mycenaean adaptation of Minoan culture because this shaped their whole lifestyle.
3. What impact did nearness to the sea have on the development of Greece?
It was important for transportation, because sea travel was needed to get other necessary materials for survival, such as timber, precious metals, and usable farmland.
4. What aspects of culture did the Mycenaeans adopt from the Minoans?
They adapted religious practices, art, politics and literature.
5. Why were the epics of importance to the Greeks of the Dorian period?
They were important because there was no written record so they had to attain info orally and the storytellings of the epics helped them.
It was important for transportation, because sea travel was needed to get other necessary materials for survival, such as timber, precious metals, and usable farmland.
4. What aspects of culture did the Mycenaeans adopt from the Minoans?
They adapted religious practices, art, politics and literature.
5. Why were the epics of importance to the Greeks of the Dorian period?
They were important because there was no written record so they had to attain info orally and the storytellings of the epics helped them.
6. How did the physical geography of Greece cause Greek-speaking peoples to develop separate, isolated communities?
The mountains made it difficult to travel throughout Greece. This caused the Greeks to separate and create their own civilizations to where they could travel easily.
The mountains made it difficult to travel throughout Greece. This caused the Greeks to separate and create their own civilizations to where they could travel easily.
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