TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Early Greece

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Identify the influences on Minoan culture and explain how the civilization prospered. Summarize how Mycenaeans ruled the sea trade and started the Trojan War. Describe the works of Homer and their influence on Greek culture. Objectives

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Terms and People Knossos – the location of a vast palace of the Minoan rulers shrine – an area dedicated to the honor of a god or goddess fresco – a watercolor painting done on wet plaster Trojan War – a war that took place around 1250 B.C.; it probably originated in the economic rivalry between Mycenae and Troy

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Terms and People (continued) strait – a narrow water passage Homer – a Greek poet who probably lived around 750 B.C. and traveled from village to village repeating tales of heroic deeds

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. How did the Minoans and Mycenaeans shape early Greek civilizations? Ideas moved from cultures in the east to Crete and were absorbed by the early civilization there. Minoans and Mycenaeans both flourished on Crete and later influenced Greeks living on the European mainland.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The island of Crete was home to an early civilization now called the Minoans. Minoan traders set up posts throughout the Aegean world and sailed to Egypt and Mesopotamia. Their rulers lived in a palace at Knossos, which had shrines and walls covered with frescoes. Fresco from the palace at Knossos

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Minoan civilization reached its height between 1600 B.C. and 1500 B.C. Minoan civilization vanished by 1400 B.C. Archaeologists are not sure why. Possible reasons include: a sudden volcanic eruption an earthquake and huge wave invaders called the Mycenaeans, who were the first Greek- speaking people

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The Mycenaean civilization dominated the Aegean region from 1400 B.C. to 1200 B.C. The Mycenaeans were sea traders who lived in separate city-states. They fought in the Trojan War against Troy, a trading city that controlled vital straits connecting the Mediterranean and Black seas.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Now, modern scholars think the war was a real event. In the 1870s, however, evidence of fire and war was found in the region and dated to 1250 B.C. Scholars had long thought of the Trojan War as pure legend.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The Iliad tells about the Trojan War and the adventures of Achilles, the mightiest Greek warrior. The Odyssey tells about the struggle of the Greek hero Odysseus as he tries to return home after the war. Two epic poems, attributed to Homer, enhance our understanding of this era.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The poems of Homer reveal much about Greek culture. Honor Faithfulness Courage Eloquence The two poems show that the Greeks valued qualities such as:

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. After the Mycenaean civilization faded, Greece passed several centuries in obscurity. People lived in small, isolated villages and had little contact with the outside world. Eventually, a new Greek civilization would emerge to dominate the region and influence the rest of the world.