Some call it destiny
Surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
Island on which the first Greek civilization began
What is Crete?
A central Asian people that settled on mainland Greece
Who are the Mycenaeans?
These Greek speaking people invaded Greece from the North around the time of the collapse of the Mycenaeans
Who are the Dorians?
These Greeks returned and ended the Dark Age
Who are the Hellenes?
A new territory with close political and economic ties to its homelend
What is a colony?
Greek City-State
What is a Polis?
Greek infantry
What are the hoplite?
Caused Greek isolation
What are mountains?
Location of Minos' palace
Where is Knossos?
Each Mycenean polis had one of these
What is a palace/fortress surrounded by a thick wall?
A 300 year period of decline, chaos, illiteracy, and decay
What is the Dark Age?
Hellene farmers produced this thing vital for trade, literacy, and specialization
What is a surplus?
Why Greeks needed colonies
What is insufficient food supply?
A hilltop supporting a fortress
What is an Acropolis?
Hoplite battle formation
What is the Phalanx?
A shortage of this led the Greeks to trade and colonize
What is (farm) land?
First civilization in Greece
Who are the Minoans?
The Mycenaeans absorbed much of their culture & technology
Who are the Minoans?
Without this trade and literacy collapsed.
What is an agricultural surplus?
The Hellenes borrowed this from the Phoenicians
What is an alphabet?
Two areas Greeks colonized
What are Italy, Spain, Sicily, North Africa, and Western Asia?
Greek Marketplace
What is an Agora?
Three items carried by the Hoplite
What is a spear, a sword, and a shield?
He discovered Agamemnon's grave, or so he claimed
Who is Schliemann?
They developed a sea-faring civilization
How geography affected the Minoan's development?
Caused the fall of the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations
What are natural disasters and invasion?
The Dorians made this positive contribution during the Dark Age.
What is they introduced iron technology?
A storyteller
What is a Bard?
Three items traded between colonies and their homelands
What is Olive Oil, Wine, grain, metals, fish, timber, pottery, and slaves.
Athens population @500 BC
What is 300,000 residents?
Overall weakness of the Greek polis political system
What is no nation-state?
Three seas bordering Greece
What are the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean?
He discovered Knossos
Who is Arthur Evans?
He discovered Mycenae
Who is Schliemann?
What the Dorian invasion drove many Greeks to do
What is flee (leave Greece)?
Where the Hellenes settled in the east when they fled the Dorians
Where is Anatolia?
Facilitated an expanded and more profitable trade network
What are coins?
Free land-owning Greek males who could vote, serve in office, defend themselves in court, own property, and were required to serve in the military and government.
What are citizens?
Athenian Hoplite Oath
What is the Athenian Ephebic Oath?