Ancient Greece. 2200 B.C- 400 B.C

Today in class we started learning about Greece. Here are some of the notes I took in class:

• The acropolis- Rock outcropping which  was the highest point in Athens, Greece. 
• Can see everything from the top of the acropolis. 
• Parthenon is built on the acropolis. 
• 3500 B.C- Megalithic structures constructed in Europe. 
•  2500 B.C- Indo- European nomads from the steppes migrate into Europe; European barbarians (war like) way of life evolves.
• 1600 B.C- Greek fortified settlements along the Aegean develop Mycenaean civilizations. 
• Barbarians lived in tribes. Indo- Europeans descent who eventually came into contact with the civilizations of the east. 
• Stone hedge, in England, was built with massive stone boulders and arranged according to solar and lunar cycles. 
• organized enough to establish cultural rituals and built megaliths. 

                                                         GREECE GEOGRAPHY:

• Mountainous Peninsula. 
• Mountains cover 3/4.
• Approximately 1,400 islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas. 
• Location shaped it's culture. 
• Skilled sailors. 
• Poor natural resources.
• Difficult to unite the Greeks because of the terrain; Developed small, independent communities.
• The sea between Greece and Turkey is the Aegean Sea. The sea between Italy and Greece is the Ionian Sea. Crete was one of the islands. 
• Both emptied out into the Mediterranean Sea.