Historical timeline
Minoan civilization flourishes on Crete
What is 2500 BC
a piece of land nearly surrounded by water [Florida]
What is a penisula?
What were the plains in between the mountains good for?
What did the colonies ship out?
Grains, metals, timber [wood], and enslaved people.
Greeks begin minting metal coin and greek city-states establish colonies
Mycenaeans settle in mainland Greece
What is 2000 BC
someone who writes or performs epic poems or stories about heroes and their deeds
Who is a bard?
How did the seas influence how many Greeks lived?
It made it easy to trade goods.
Because of these, increased trade and made Greek colonies wealthier?
What are coins?
This happened in 500 BC
Athens thrives as a city state
Minoan civilization collapses
A group of people living in a new territory with close ties to their homeland
What is a colony
The system in which goods are bought and sold.
What is trade?
Who governed the polis?
The people of each polis.
A group of armed foot soldiers in ancient Greece arranged close together in rows
What is the Minoan Dark Ages
A Greek city-state
What is a Polis?
What was important to the Minoans?
Trade
These people fought for their city-state or polis.
What are hoplites?
What is agora?
This happened in 750 BC
Greeks emerge from the dark ages
A gathering place or marketplace in ancient Greece
What is an agora?
Why were the Mycenaean palaces important?
They were the centers of government.
These were the rights of Greek citizens.
What is serving the government, fighting to protect their government and voting.
When hoplites would form a line a march shoulder to shoulder.
What is phalanx?