Geography
What is a body of land with water on three sides
Peninsula
An important economic activity for the Minoans was
Trade
the Mycenaean kingdom declined over time because
fought one another, earthquakes destroyed palaces
storyteller
Another name for a Greek city-state
Polis
These settlements began on narrow fertile plains that ran along the coast, such as wheat, barley, olives and grapes
Communities
Using the wood from Crete's forests of oak and cedar trees, the Minoans built
Ships
Mycenaeans adopted the features of which cultures
Minoans
Number of letters in the Greek alphabet
24
Outside the acropolis was an open area called an
agora
Greek mainland is on the southern part of this peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
Minoan ships patrolled the eastern Mediterranean Seat to protect Minoan trade from
pirates
The homeland of Mycenaeans
descendants of the people who ran away returned to the Greek mainland
The hilltop that a fort stood on was called an
acropolis
Part of present-day Turkey: far to the east of the Greek mainland
Anatolia
ARthur Evans unearther the amazing palace of a legendary king named...
Minos
Three facts about Mycenaean Kingdom
it was built on a hill
it had thick stone walls
nobles lived outside the wall on large farms
workers and slaves live in village
Greeks adopted an alphabet from these traders who sailed from the Mediterranean coast
Phoenician traders
A phalanx is
the unified formation when the soldiers raised their shields above them to protect them from the enemy's arrows
What body of water lies east of the Balkan Peninsula
Aegean Sea
This British archeologist discovered a site on Crete called Knossos
Arthur Evans
Mycenaeas were very successful in this war
Trojan War
the Dorians
Hoplites were
Citizens who made up the city-state armies and fought on foot