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Foundations Greece
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Minoans | a powerful, seafaring group that dominated trade in the eastern Mediterranean. |
| Aegean Sea | is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea around Greece and Turkey. |
| Knossos | the Minoan capital city, on island of Crete. |
| King Minos | was a king who owned a half human, halfbull monster called the Minotaur and was named the civilization, the Minoans. |
| Phoenicians | |
| Mycenaean | |
| Trojan War | |
| Dorians | |
| Homer | |
| Epics | |
| Myths | |
| were the most powerful traders along the Mediterranean Sea, around Lebanon. | |
| a name from the city of Mycenae, were people who settled in Greece around 2000 BC. | |
| was a 10 year battle against Troy and the Mycenaeans located in Anatolia. | |
| a new group of people that moved into the war-torn countryside and spoke forms of Greek. | |
| was the greatest storyteller, blind man. | |
| are narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds, sometime between 700âs BC. | |
| were developed by Greeks that are traditional stories about their gods. |