Classical Civilizations: Greece - SeymourSocialStudiesDepartment
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Classical Civilizations:
Greece
SECTION 1 Cultures of the
Mountains and the Sea
Mr. Pagliaro
Seymour High School
Objectives
Identify the Mycenaeans
Explain how Greek culture is based on
Mycenaean, Minoan, and Dorian cultures
Identify Homer and the significance of
Greek Epics
Key Terms
Terms
epics
myths
Trojan War
Names
Minoans
Mycenaeans
Heinrich Schliemann
Homer
Aesop
Mediterranean Geography
Greek Settlements
Regions of Greece
Isthmus of
Corinth
Peloponnese
The Greek landscape
Greek Coastline
Trojan War
Iliad-Homer
Achaeans
(Mycenaeans)
vs. Trojans
Achilles!!!
Hellespont
Classical Greek Trade Routes
Heinrich Schliemann & Troy
Mask of
Agamemnon
•Used Homer’s epics to discover
Troy and other Mycenaean sites.
The Greek Oral Tradition:
Storytellers
Aesopc. 600s BC
Fables
Tell moral tales
Homerc. 1100s BC/800s BC
Iliad &
Odyssey
Taught values
Slave
Epics
Taught:
Religion
Morals
Values
Greek ideals
Multiple authors?
Blind
Dorian Invasion
C. 1200 BC
End of Mycenaean culture
Major cities burned (Athens and Sparta
remained)
Greece entered a Dark Age
No written records
Dorian Age/Dark Age
c. 1150-750 BC
Indo-Europeans
Brought iron
Less advanced than Mycenaeans
No writing
Mycenaeans wrote similarly to Minoans
Review
What impact did nearness to the sea have
on the development of Greece?
Why were the epics of importance to the
Greeks of the Dorian period?