Cultures of the Mountains and Sea Notes:
- democracy in which citizens exercised power
- Greeks created sculptures of gods and goddesses
- they did not live on land, they like to say that they live around the sea
- sea was important for transportation because Greece lacked natural resources such as timber, precious metals, and usable farmland
- mountains divided the land into different regions and groups of people
- these groups had their own governments with different political and cultural views
- it was hard to travel over these mountain barricades
- historians believe the infertile land of Ancient Greece led the Greeks to seek new sites for colonies
- mycenaens and minoan civilizations
- Myceneans fought a war against Troy and hid soldiers in a wooden horse to capture the city of Troy
Notes on powerpoint:
- the world's great civilizations settled by rivers/ water source
- Mesopotamia/ tigris and euphrates river
- India/ Indus river
- China/ Huang He river
- Egypt/ Nile river
- Adrianic Sea
- Ionian sea
- Greece is a peninsula
- Mediterranean = " middle of earth"
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