it's all greek to me! - day one powerpoint
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IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME!A brief history of Ancient Greece and an introduction to mythology
WHERE IS GREECE?
• capital: Athens
• strategic location in the Mediterranean sea
CLIMATE OF GREECE
Mediterranean climate = Hot and dry summers, cool and wet winters
AGRICULTURE
• Olives • olive oil• Wine (grapes)• Animal husbandry• Grains• supplemented with vegetable and herb gardens
AGRICULTURE
• The type of soil determines what and where people could grow crops.• In Greece, the soil is not very fertile! Why? Rocky soil, specifically limestone.• Only 30% percent of the land is farmable today.*
*http://projects.cbe.ab.ca/senatorpatrickburns/agriculture.html
The soil has determined Greece's agriculture since the ancient world.
BRONZE AGE GREECE - CRETE
Crete an island society existing between 2200 and 1400 b.c.
The “Minoans” and king minos
Main palace at knossos
Arthur evans excavated the remains of a palace from 1900-1905
BRONZE AGE GREECE- CRETE
•Minoan religion honored bulls, snakes, and birds.
• Few tablets containing Linear A, the term for the Minoan language, have been found on the island.
BRONZE AGE GREECE
BRONZE AGE GREECE- CRETE
What happened to the Minoan civilization?-Previously thought: natural disaster such as an earthquake-Now, it is thought by some historians that the Mycenaean civilization invaded Crete.
BRONZE AGE GREECE- MYCENAE
Early Mycenae/the Shaft Grave Era (1600-1500 BC)
Discovery: heinrich schliemann found in 1876
29 mass graves filled with treasures including war gear and gold-plated death masks
also, elaborate “Tholos” graves: bee-hive shaped
BRONZE AGE GREECE- MYCENAE
Period of the Palaces (1500-1200 BC) Mycenae Tiryns Athens Orchomeus Thebes Pylos
GREEK DARK AGES
End of the palace era; no evidence of kings ruling and palaces not rebuilt
Loss of the art of writing as seen in linear a and b tablets
Few bronze items are found, while more iron items date back to the dark ages which indicates a lack of foreign trade
GREEK DARK AGES
There were advancements though… Protogeometric pottery faster potter’s wheel New shapes and designs Glazing techniques
Smelting and iron work Lack of trade caused the Greeks to begin to mineIron ores
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzixJJQpkEE
EIGHTH-CENTURY GREEK RENAISSANCE
around 900 bc, greece began conducting trade outside of the homeland again.
This caused an increase in:1. Production of luxury items2. Population growth3. Greek colonies in southern italy and sicily
EIGHTH-CENTURY GREEK RENAISSANCE
Religious revival panhellenismOracles: people went to seek advice from people through whom a god could speak through Shrines to Zeus and Hera at Olympia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGfh6ZFmvto
EIGHTH-CENTURY GREEK RENAISSANCE
Literacy In 700 b.c., a new writing emerges which
would become the greek alphabet Began in phrases and scratched onto
vases “I am the drinking cup of nestor, good to
drink from. Whoever drinks this cup, immediately will seize him of beautiful-crowned aphrodite”
ANCIENT GREECE
SOCIAL HIERARCHY OF ANCIENT GREECE
Freedmen
Slaves
Those who were free-born males of greece who held
land
More independent than slaves, but do not have wealth
THE FORMATION OF THE POLISSynoecism – the process of households being united to form a political governing body
CITY STATES OF ANCIENT GREECE
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