Ch 5 Set 1
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- Greek Geography
- Greek had short mountains separating the city-states, short rivers, and an uneaven coastline
- Popular government
- the idea that people can and should rule themselves
- Main aspects of Greek culture
- The Creeks told Myths to explain the world. They believed in many gods. They had oral poetry
- Hoplite
- heave infantry who carried ong spears and who fought in closely spaced rows
- acropolis
- hill
- Mycenaeans
- Controlled mainland Greece from about 1600 B.C. to about 1200 B.C. They were arring people who grouped themselves into clans and tribes
- 4 Characteristics of a polis
- It had a small area of land, a population less than 10,000 people, fort was built on an acropolis, and it had an agora
- agora
- marketplace
- polis
- The Greek word for city-state
- Homer
- A blind poet who wrote the epics Ilian and Odyssey
- minoans
- a civilization named after the legendary king of Crete, King Minos. Set up there city in Knossos, Crete