More Notes on Greece

- Greece: 50,949 square miles (small in size, HUGE in influence)
- although fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula, only about twenty percent is arable (suitable for farming).
- Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, olives, and fish.
- lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization.
- back then, temperatures ranged from mid forties in the winter to low eighties in the summer - although it could get hot in the summer, it was pretty nice year-round.
- their influence began around 2000 BCE.
- Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge on Peloponnesus protected by a twenty foot thick wall.
- Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1100 BCE and controlled trade in the region.
- 1400 BCE - Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture (writing system, language, art, politics, literature, and religion).
- Greeks have fought in many wars over time.
- Trojan War - fought around 1200 BCE.
- Part of Greek mythology - until the 19th century most historians thought it was fictional because gods and goddesses got involved.

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