Redmond Vocab - Chapter 4, Section 1

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Aegean Sea

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sea in between Greece and Turkey that Greece sailed on

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Black Sea

Back 2

sea north of Turkey where Greece sailed

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Miroans

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The people of the Minoan civilization.
They were proto-Greek and were the first Greek people to live in the Mediterranean Basin on the island of Crete.
Their capital is Knossos.

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Myceraeans

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(It's only a belief) - people that invaded Crete and destroyed the Minoan civilization around 1450 BC.

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Ionia

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in modern day Turkey
a strip of territory on the western shores of the Asia Minor
Where the Greeks went (across the Aegan Sea) at the beginning of the Dark Age to establish colonies

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epic poem

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a long poem that tells the deed of a great hero

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arete

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something the hero strives for and is won in a struggle or contest