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Notebook 1: Greece
| TERM | WWWWH |
|---|---|
| The collapse | 12 century B.C. invaders from the North 1100 B.C. |
| Dark Age | 1100-750 B.C. difficult period in which population and food production dropped 850 B.C. farming revived |
| Phoenician Alphabet | 8th Century B.C. adopted made learning to read and write easier |
| Homer | Great poet; wrote epics based on the Trojan War wrote the Iliad and Odyssey taught values of courage and honor |
| Arete | striving for excellence |
| Polis | central focus of Greek life city/town and surrounding territory social, political, and religious activities held on a hill |
| Acropolis | area on top of polis that was fortified place of refuge during attack |
| Greek colonies | 750-550 B.C. Greeks left their homeland Expanded into France, Spain, Italy, & Africa *good farmland and growth of trade* 2 main factors |
| Geography | small, mountainous peninsula consisted of many islands important role in civilization development |
| Isolation | mountains separated Greeks from one another communities developed their own way of life sea influential |
| Minoan | 2800-1450 B.C. civilization that used metals Bronze Age |
| 1st Greek state | Mycenaean people flourished 1600-1100 B.C. warrior people wall murals show war & hunting scenes spread outward and conquered areas like Crete and a few Aegean islands |
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