Geography and Land
Unlike Egypt or Mesopotamia, Greece lacked major rivers and was covered in these two features.
Mountains/Seas
This civilization built a massive palace at Knossos on the island of Crete.
Minoans
This group of people invaded the Greek mainland, triggering the Dark Age.
Dorians
This is the Greek word for a city-state that acted like an independent country.
Polis
These foot soldiers fought with spears and shields to protect their homes.
Hoplites
Greece is located on this specific peninsula.
Balkan
The Mycenaeans adopted these three skills/beliefs from the Minoans
ALL REASONS why the period after the Dorians arrived was called a "Dark Age."
Poor People, slow trade, no writing,
To be a citizen, you had to meet these four specific requirements.
Man, Free, Own Land, and you had to be born in that polis.
Greeks founded these in places like the Aegean Islands to find more land and resources.
Colonies
The Aegean Sea is actually a smaller part of this much larger sea.
Mediterranean
Historians believe the Minoans may have collapsed due to which two things
Earthquakes or The Mycenaeans
Greeks adopted an alphabet from these people to improve their record-keeping.
Phoenicians
Greek citizens had more of this compared to people living in Egypt or Mesopotamia.
Freedom
Greeks traded these three things between islands.
Ideas, goods, and fish
These two physical barriers caused Greek communities to become independent "separate countries."
Mountains/Sea
The Mycenaeans collected these three items as taxes from their people.
Honey, livestock, wheat
During the Dark Age, farmers stopped selling food and did this instead.
Farmed only for themselves
These were the two main responsibilities of every Greek citizen.
Army service & Government
Greek loyalty to their specific city-state made Greece easier to do this.
Greeks grew these four specific crops because they suited the rocky soil. NAME ALL
Wheat, barley, olives, grapes.
The Mycenaean civilization fell because kingdoms fought each other and because of these.
Earthquakes
The year the Mycenaeans first arrived on the Greek mainland.
2000 B.C.
This was the name of the famous palace belonging to the King of the Minoans.
This is the definition of a peninsula.
A body of land with water on three sides.