Slide 1The Bronze Age Meanwhile In Greece … Slide 2 Background Began to coalesce into a heterogynous but identifiable people about the time of the first Olympics (776 B.C.).…

Slide 1ANCIENT GREECE Slide 2 Slide 3 Greece: The Aegean Area Southern part of Balkans Low-lying, rugged mountains Fertile plains for farming, not enough to support population…

Slide 1Sports in Bronze Age Minoan Crete and the Aegean Slide 2 Bull-leaping (Gymnastics) Slide 3 Slide 4 Sports in Bronze Age Minoan Crete and the Aegean Slide 5 Bull-Leaping…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 Spinalonga Island Slide 4 St. Nikolas Slide 5 Knossos Slide 6 Well preserved beaches Slide 7 Golf Course Slide 8 Slide 9 Slide 10 Cretaquarium Slide…

Slide 1 On the Greek Mainland, the coast of Asia minor and the islands between Slide 2 The inhabitants (Pelasgians) shared a similar language and ethnicity originating from…

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…

Slide 1 History of the Ancient and Medieval World Ancient Greece Walsingham Academy Mrs. McArthur Room 111 Slide 2 Getting Started: Questions to Consider 1.What impact did…

Slide 1 Ancient Greece Slide 2 The Geography of Greece Slide 3 Geography Peninsula- Mediterranean / Aegean SeasPeninsula- Mediterranean / Aegean Seas Sea = trade, ideasSea…

Slide 1Background to Homer Slide 2 GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan War:…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Sir Arthur Evans excavated the site of Knossos on Crete in 1899 Slide 3 Homer’s description of Minoans in the Odyssey (19.172-179) There is a land called…