Slide 1Greeks Slide 2 Geography of Greece Greece is a mountainous peninsula about the size of Louisiana. The mountains and the sea were the most important geographical influences…

1. Ancient GreeceWorld History 1 2. Unlike Mesopotamia and Egypt, Greece is smallIt consists of a mainland covered with mountains and dozens of islandsIn fact, Greece is…

1. Ancient GreeceWorld History 1 2. Unlike Mesopotamia and Egypt, Greece is smallIt consists of a mainland covered with mountains and dozens of islandsIn fact, Greece is…

Slide 1 Early Civilizations in Greece Slide 2 Do Now: Read page 106-107 in your textbooks and answer the Reading Check question on the bottom of page 107. Slide 3 The Impact…

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Slide 1 Slide 2 The First Greeks slide 1 The first Greeks settled in the areas colored in green, purple and red. They arrived about ________ years ago and lived in caves,…

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Slide 1 Slide 2 The Geography of Greece Slide 3 Geography of Greece ¾ is Mountains; poor farming land¾ is Mountains; poor farming land Ionian, Aegean, and Meditteranean…

Slide 1 Introduction to Humanities Lecture 2a Greek history By David Kelsey Slide 2 Early Greece Early Greece: – Early Greece was dominated by 3 cultures: the Cycladic…