Thursday, January 18, 2018

Continued notes on ancient greece

  • Greece is a mountainous peninsula
  • relatively central location, accessible to many ports on the Mediterranean sea
  • in a good position for trade
  • greeks were seafaring people
  • TO KNOW:
    • Aegean Sea
    • Ionic Sea
    • Adriatic Sea
    • Peloponnesus
    • Athens
    • Sparta
    • Crete
    • Asia Minor/ Turkey
    • Macedonia
  • mountains cover about 3 quarters of greece
  • approximately 2,000 islands in the Ionian and Aegean Seas
  • had many skilled sailors and ship builders also farmers, metal workers, weavers, and potters
  • Greece had poor/ limited natural resources, so they needed to trade
  • used the coastlines of places to make ports to trade with other places
  • IMPORTANT: It was really hard to unite Ancient Greeks because of the terrain. They developed small, independent communities (city-states), that is who they were loyal to.
  • it was almost like the greeks were more proud of being a part of their state than being a partof greece
  • its kind of like how in the confederate america, the southern people were more loyal to their states than to the country as a whole.
  • Sparta had a stronger land army than athens
  • Athens had a stronger Navy than Sparta

No comments:

Post a Comment

Renaissance powerpoint Notes

1300-1600 "rebirth" cities were the center of action  Milan and florence had wealthy merchants and bankers artists in these c...