ancient greece powerpoint pt.1

Today in class we took notes on a power point. Here are some of the notes I took:

• The worlds greatest civilizations are all located on water (usually rivers)

• Mesopotamia / Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
• Egypt / Nile River
• India / Indus River
• China / Huang He River

be able to identify the following:

• Aegean Sea
• Ionian Sea
• Adriatic Sea (it’s just north of the Ionian Sea)
• Peloponnesus
• Athens
• Sparta
• Crete
• Asia Minor
• Macedonia

• Greece is a mountainous peninsula mountains cover 3/4 of Greece

• approximately 2000 islands in the Ionian and Aegean Seas

• this combination shaped Greece’s culture: many skilled sailors and shipbuilders; also farmers, metalworkers, weavers, potters

• limited natural resources (needed to trade)

• difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain

• they developed small, independent communities (city-states) that they were loyal to
• about 20% of the 1/4 of fertile valleys are arable (suitable for farming)
• Greek diet- grains, grapes, olives, and fish
• lack of resources most likely led to colonization
• was pretty nice year-round (temperature wise)