Notes:
- Ancient greeks were a very active people, invented olympics
- Mycenae was on an island protected by a 20 foot thick wall. they were also really good at building ships
- 1400 BCE Mycenaens invaded crete and absorbed Minoan culture
- people now used to think the Trojan war was fictional because of the involvement of greek mythology, but archaeologists found that there actually was a war in the city of Troy
- around 1200 BCE the mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae, and burnt palace after palace
- "sea people" are unidentified
- dorians were less advanced than the people they invaded, very isolated/ not interested in contact with other places
- dorians didnt write things down, writing disappeared as they remained in control for 400 years
- this time period is referred to as the dark ages in Greece
- Greek oral tradition- stories passed on by word of mouth
- Homer lived at the end of these "Greek Dark Ages"
- homer composed stories of the Trojan war
- Composed Iliad and Oddysey
- The Odyssey is 12,110 lines long
- homer was blind
- he was a hugely influencial person in greek history
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