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What is the time between ancient and ancient greece times when the culture stops?
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The Dark Ages
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Geography (Ancient Greece)
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-Arid (dry) and mountainous
-Known for olives (cooking, fuel, rituals) and grapes (wine) -Small farms with grain -Coast>fishing -Terrain rugged-hard to control large areas -Polis> word for city-state |
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Minoans
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-King Minos>King of Crete
-Minotaur>half man half bull -Theseus> "hero" -Wealthy, artistic, nonmilitary -1880s, Heinrich Sclieman>Finds King Minos palace, finds canosos, finds labrith -Controlled small sea empire in the Med Sea |
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Minoan Culture
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-Women participated in religion
-Some were priestesses, female snake handlers, etc -Linear A>Writing, never been deciphered, symbols and pictures -Society was not militaristic>No weapons found in burial sites, only some walls along seacoast |
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Minoans to Mycenaen
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1610 BC, a volcano in Aegean Sea erupted and killed many Minoans and destroyed a lot
-Weakened from the volcano and with few weapons and defenses, the Minoans were an easy target -They were conquered by the Myceneans from Mainland Greece in 1450 |
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Mycenaens
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-Named after Mycenae>A cultural center city
-Culture was a group of city states, each ruled by a warrior king who were chosen by their ability in battle -City state was small and centered around the king's palace, which was a defensible position that people could fall back into in case of attack |
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Mycenaen Culture
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-Cities surrounded by walls called Cycloptic Walls, only one entrance (like an eye)
-Herinrich Schlieman excavated the site of Mycenae in 1800s, found these walls, found lost city of Troy -Priests not that important -Anyone could personally deal with gods -Greeks interact with gods through oracles (Centers of prophecy, a location not a person) -Buried their dead in bee hive tombs, underground vaults -by 1200 BC, most cities destoryed or abandoned |
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Myceanens End
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-The Dark Ages Begin
-Internal weakness, attacks form outsiders and the mycenaen civilization disappear -1100-800 BC known and Greek Dark Ages -No civilizations -Palacs abandoned, writingnot used -People exist on subsistence level |
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Homer
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-Around 800 BC, end of Dark Ages
-Poct -Unknown exactly who this person was -Wrote the Illiad and The Odyssey, which together are known as the Greek bible |
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Greek Gods
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-Anthropomorphic-can take human form
-Live on mount Olympus-Nectar and Ambrosia -Gods came form Titans -Always medaling with human affairs |
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Zeus
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Thunder and Lightening, head God
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Hera
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Zeus's wife, Queen, motherhood
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Athena
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Wisdom and War
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Artemis
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Goddess of the hunt
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Aphrodite
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Goddess of love
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Apollo
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God of the sun and music
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Poseidon
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God of the Sea
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Gods and Religion
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-Hades, Greek and Roman
-Pluto, Roman -Gods drawn from Homer poems -Strong female figures -Hades> Afterlife for Greeks, location, pluto is god that overlooks Hades -Pay the ferryman (Charon) to cross river styx-coin on tongue |
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Hades
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-Bad Greeks punished there
-Tantalus> water and grapes -Sisyphus's daughters> water in holed jug -Sisyphus rolled stone up hill and it rolled back down -Pluto and Persephone (Goddess of nature) were rules of Hades |
