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6 Cards in this Set
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Trireme:
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A powerful warship with three banks of oars
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Climate and Agriculture
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Diet was 90% barley-
had limited animals! (About sheep, goat; also oxen and mules were around) -Warm, wet winters, and hot dry summers -80% of Greeks involved in agriculture |
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Olive oil:
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-Cured and removed natural bitterness and also create oil
-This was a health source of directly fat, used in grooming, used as fuel and anoint kings and Althea |
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Ancient Greece
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Greece was not a country but a region with a common language
City state owned/ruled it’s own ‘nation’ |
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Mycenaeans
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Settled Greek mainland around 2,000 B.CMycenaeans were warrior-herdsmen
always looking for new herds Mycenaeans had protective natural barrier (steep and rocky ridge) walls allowed them to withstand almost any attack Strong rulers (kings) controlled the city-states and surrounding villages and farms |
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Minoans
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Around 1,500 B.C the Mycenaean and Minoans met Learned the value of sea-based trade Adapted to Minoans writing system to Greek Influence M & M foamed a core of Greek religion, art, politics, and literature |
