Greece
How it all
started!
The Minoans
• Lived on the island
of Crete
• Had great power in
the Mediterranean
Sea
– Made many trades
with other countries
The Minoans
• The had
sophisticated art
• Enjoyed building
palaces
– Decorated them
with FRESCOES
– FRESCO: ground
up paint in
limewater mix
* Shows BULL
LEAPING a
ritual sport.
Minoan Decline
• No one knows
why this powerful
civilization
stopped to exist
• THEORY:
Volcanic eruption
on Thera
– Toxic gas
– Caused Tsunamis
Indo-Europeans
• Began to settle
in mainland
Greece
The Mycenaeans
• Replaced the Minoans
• Lived and grew on Mainland
Greece
• Leading City: Mycenae
– Surrounded by massive wall
about 20 feet thick
• Adapted Minoan writing
system
• Advanced in Bronze & Iron
The Trojan War
• 1200 B.C. –
Mycenaean
kings fought a
10 year war
with Troy
• WHY!?!?!?!?!
* Troy
Helen
Kidnapped?
Caused War
The TROJAN Wall!
How do
we get
in???
AH HA!
The Trojan Horse of Course!
Fact or Fiction?
• Heinrich
Shliemann
excavated
Turkey
–Discovered this
story may be
TRUE!!
The Boring Theory
• Trojan war was over:
–Struggle for control of a crucial
waterway in the Aegean Sea
The Dorians
• Less advanced then the
Mycenaeans
• Forgot the art of writing during
this age
–No written record exists
• Little known about this time