WH Unit 1 Ch 4-1

1. Chapter 4
World History
Ancient Greece

2. Impact of Geography
 Greece
consists of a mountainous
peninsula and numerous islands.
 The
many mountain ranges caused
small, independent communities
 Their
size and independence probably
encouraged political participation
within, and war among the different
communities.

4. The Mionan Civilization
A
Bronze Age civilization called the
Minoan civilization was established on
Crete.
 It
was named after Minos, by the
British archaeologist Arthur Evans,
who discovered the ruins on Crete.

6. The First Greek State:
Mycenae
 It
was made up of an alliance of powerful
monarchies, each living in a fortified center
within large stone walls.
 The
rest of the population lived outside these
walls.
 One interesting architectural feature is the
large beehive-shaped tholos tombs, where
the royal family was buried.

8. The First Greek State:
Mycenae
 The
Mycenaeans had a warrior culture.
 Their
murals show the typical
occupations of a warrior aristocracyfighting and hunting.
 Their
pottery has been found
throughout the Mediterranean.

10. The First Greek State:
Mycenae
 The
most famous of their supposed
military adventures comes to us in the
poetry of Homer.
 According
to Homer, Mycenaeans
sacked the city of Troy,

11. The Greeks in the Dark Age
 The
period from 1100 to 750 BC in
Greece is called the Dark Ages
because few records of that period
exist.
 Iron
replaced Bronze during the Dark
Age, improving weaponry and farming.

12. The Greeks in the Dark Age
 The
works of Homer appeared near
the end of the Dark Age.
 Homer’s
epic poems were the Illiad
and the Odyssey. An epic poem is a
long poem that tells of a great hero’s
deeds.

13. The Greeks in the Dark Age
 The
Illiad takes place during the Trojan War.
 Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnaps Helen, the
wife of the king of Sparta.
 The
 The
Greeks laid siege to Troy for 10 years
Illiad, is about the destruction caused by
the anger of the Greek hero Achilles.
 The Odyssey tells of the Greek hero
Odysseus’s ten-year return to his home

15. The Greeks in the Dark Age
 Both
of Homer’s poems gave the
Greeks an ideal past and a set of
values.
 The values in them were used to
educate Greek males for generations.
 Fathers
had their sons memorize all of
Homer to learn how to act well and be
good men.

16. The Greeks in the Dark Age
 The
basic Homeric values were courage and
honor.
 Through
fighting and protecting family and
friends, the man preserves his and his
family’s honor.
 He
also wins an honorable reputation, the
sign of arete.