Human Geo

Today in human geo we just went over the power point the whole time.  These were the notes we took.
Greece is 20% arable (suitable for farming)
Greek diet- grains, grapes, olives, and fish.  They have a ever heathy diet.
Lack of resources lead to the Greek colonization.
40s in the winter and low 80s in the summer/ could also get hot.
Influence around 2000 BCE
Mycenae beaten rocky ridge on Peloponnesus, protect 20-foot thick wall.  Mycenaean kings dominated 16000-1100 BCE invaded Crete/ absorbed Minoan culture.
1400 BCE Mycenaeans invaded Crete/ absorbed Minoan culture.
The Trojan war (fact/ fiction)
many wars
12th or 13th cent. BCE
Greek mythology until 19th cent.
Gods and Goddesses got involved

goddesses: Atena, Aphrodite, and hera.
paris judged Aphrodite as "the fairest "
1200 BCE mysterious "sea people" invade Mycenae
Dorians were far less advanced
trade based economy collapsed
writing disappeared for 400 years
talk about a culture

oral tradition passed by mouth composed stories
homer lived in the end of the dark ages stories
lliad 1 of the last conquest of Mycenaeans
odyssey returned home after trojan but Poseidon s testing him because he is jealsous.

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