 There were a lot of olive trees  There was also a lot of pantheons  Mountains (so the view was cool)  The soil was thin and rocky but the people still grew olives and grapes

 Grapes  Wheat  Corn  Bread(Maza and Artos)  Lentils  Eggs  Figs  Olives  Breakfast: maza or artos soaked in diluted wine with olives or figs  Meat was only eaten on special occasions  Lower level people ate fish

 Women and servants wove the clothes  Women: long dresses called chitons  For Warmth: men and women wore a shawl like himation(it draped over the shoulders  Men: short tunic made of colored wool

 Lived in small houses  Had two or three rooms  All homes had a small wooden stove or portable charcoal

 They had commerce in the agora (marketplace)that discussed politics and culture  They had drinking parties for the wealthy men while the woman entertained  Symposia (parties)

 They used mud bricks  Everyone had portable charcoal or wood stove  They had crossbows for hunting  Handmade tools  Pans, chariots, wheels  They also had a unique tool called the strigil to scrape off access oil and dirt after excising

 They traded pottery  Used money  Sold homemade things ( such as bread perfume etc.)  Traded food with other people

 The democratic government that the Greeks developed later inspired political thinkers  During Athens early history the city recited a gradual economic and political compromise that let the rich and the poor live together peacefully  The rich Athens tried to hold on to power for to long and became a result of a radical democratic revolution in the sixth century

 Ancient Greeks religion was that upon what there lives were built on.  They built temples in every town for there gods and goddesses  Believed the gods came from the Gaia (earth) and Uranos (sky)  They believed the twelve most important gods and goddess lived on the top of Mount Olympus  Greek Gods  Zeus(lord of the sky)  Poseidon(lord of the sea)  Hades(lord of the underworld)  Aphrodite(goddess of love)  Hestia(goddess of home)  Hera(goddess of family)  Ares(god of war)  Apollo(god of the sun)  Artemis(god of huntsmen  Athena(goddess of wisdom)  Hermes(messenger of gods)  Hephaestus(god of fire)

 The Greeks were the first Europeans to read and write with an alphabet  Early Greek alphabet suited to the local dialects the 3 major dialects were Aeolic, Doric, and Ionic  The first surviving scripts for writing Greek was the Linear B discovered in 1953

 God of wine  Beautiful plays to worship the drama god (Dionysus)  The temples to worship the gods were made of hand carved stone

 Pottery  Poetry  festivals

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