24 January 201324 January 2013• Bellringer – Please have your

homework out on your desk.

• Discuss Homework – make corrections!

• Chapter 8.1 Notes (preview chapter)

• HW : Read 8.1 & Magnet Notes

The Early GreeksThe Early Greeks

World HistoryChapter 8, Section 1

GeographyGeography

Climate of AthensClimate of Athens

The MinoansThe Minoans

• Located on the “Island of Crete”

The MinoansThe Minoans• We can’t read their writing• Did not speak Greek – Not

Greek!

The The MinoansMinoans• Into the arts & peaceful

trade along the sea

TheTheMinoansMinoans

The Minoans … how they The Minoans … how they end????end????• Possibly wiped out by a

tsunami (1600s BC)

MycenaeansMycenaeans• The first Greeks!• They were attackers

– Very war like– Trade was hostile

MycenaeansMycenaeans

Mycenaeans – a tombMycenaeans – a tomb

Mycenaeans’s end is Mycenaeans’s end is unknown …????unknown …????

• Began to fall apart in 1200 BC

• Wars?/Invaders? Famine?

MycenaeansMycenaeans

• Their fall led to the “Dark Age”

City-StatesCity-States• Polis means city-state• Known as the Classical Age (great

achievements)• Each city state was independent and

had its own identity

City-StatesCity-States• Each city-state was centered around

an acropolis or large fortress