pg. 126 questions 1,3,4,5

Today in class we took notes on Ancient Greece and all the things that happened to it that shaped its culture today. I noticed that Greek had a lot of things that were sprouted from the civilizations before it.

1.
Mycenean - A civilization of people that were named after the city of Mycenae
Trojan War - The ten-year war between the Myceneans and the independent city of Troy
Dorian - A group Greeks that took the burned city of Mycenae over for 400 and did not write
Homer - Homer is the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.
Epic - a great poem or story that deals with supernatural beings
Myth - ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society

3. The impact that nearness to the sea had on the development of Greece was that it allowed the Greeks to sea travel and trade with all the other parts of Greek. Sea trade and trade were also important because Greece lacked natural resources, such as timber, precious metals, and usable farmland.

4. The aspects of culture that that the Myceneans adopted from the Minoans were the sea trading and the writing. The Minoan-influenced culture of Mycenae formed the core of Greek religious practice, art, politics, and literature.

5. The epics were important to the Greeks of the Dorian period because there was no writing, and epics and stories were the only ways that Greek history stayed alive. The Greeks relied on epics and stories to learn about their pasts.