1. 25 January 2017 Goal – Review Geography of Greece & learn about the “Early Greeks”
Bellringer – Take out your homework and something to grade with.
Check over the M & M Homework
Chapter 8.1 Notes (preview chapter)
HW : Study guide due 2/2

2. Minoan HW
Minoan E C A G B F D

3. Chapter 8.1 Notes Packet page 2 Read 8.1 to add to your notes

4. Geography
Greece is a peninsula (surrounded by water on 3 sides); is this a positive or negative?
Mountains cover much of Greece’s landscape
Greece is made up of mainland and dozens of islands

5. Climate of Athens
Very little rainfall in Athens (15 inches per year vs. Illinois which gets around 33 inches; hence drought-resistant crops
Note the averages for sunshine per month
Average temp never below 40 and never above 85

6. Day
High
Low
January 20 59 42
Thursday 55
Friday 52 39
Saturday 44 36
Sunday 46 37

7. The Minoans
Located on the “Island of Crete”

8. The Minoans We can’t read their writing
Did not speak Greek – Not Greek!
Mi-No-One Knows how to speak their language…

9. The Minoans
Into the arts & peaceful trade along the sea

10. The Minoans

12. The Minotaur was a monster in Greek mythology, half-bull and half-human. He lived in the Labyrinth, which expanded underneath the court of King Minos in Crete, and he was born from the union of Minos' wife with the Cretan Bull. This bull was sent as a gift from Poseidon to Minos, in order to support him in his struggle to become the ruler of Crete. However, Minos did not sacrifice the bull as he was meant to, but kept it. Poseidon was enraged and made his wife fall in love with the bull. When the Minotaur was born, he would only eat humans as he was an unnatural creature. Minos asked for advice from the oracle of Delphi, and was told to create a labyrinth underneath his palace and put the Minotaur there. So, Minos asked his architect, the famous Daedalus, to construct this maze.
One day, the son of Minos, Androgeus, decided to participate in some games that were organized in Athens. In these games, he was killed by mistake. Minos, infuriated, attacked Athens and then demanded that fourteen young people from the city be sent annually to Crete as a sacrifice to the Minotaur. In a following year, Theseus, son of the king of Athens Aegeus, volunteered to go and kill the monster. When he arrived in Crete, Ariadne, daughter of Minos, fell in love with him, and offered him a sword, as well as a ball of thread. She told him to tie the thread near the entrance of the labyrinth and unroll it as he goes deeper, so that he could find the way out later. Theseus went in the labyrinth, managed to kill the Minotaur, and then found the way out.

13. The Minoans…how they end???
Possibly wiped out by a volcano which may have triggered a tsunami (1600s BC)
Covered fields w/ash
Mycenaeans come in?

14. Mycenaeans 2000BC-c.1200-1100BC The first Greeks! They were attackers
Very war like
Trade was hostile
City of Troy attacked
Writing called Linear B as it’s characters consisted lines written on clay tablets (lists of food, and products made, used and distributed

15. Mycenaeans

16. Mycenaeans – a tomb like who….?

17. Mycenaeans’s end is unknown
Began to fall apart in 1200 BC
Wars?/Invaders? Famine?

18. Mycenaeans
Their fall led to the “Dark Age”

19. City-States Polis means city-state
Known as the Classical Age (great achievements)
Each city state was independent and had its own identity
Like “mini” countries – why?

20. City-States
Each city-state was centered around an acropolis or large fortress