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The first Greeks settled in the areas colored in green, purple and red. They arrived about ________ years ago and lived in caves, hunting and gathering food.

Around ___________ they started to farm. By 3,000 BC they began to use bronze.

40,000

6,000 BC

The First GreeksThe first

inhabitants of Crete settled in about 6000 BC. A palace at _________ was excavated in 1894.

Crete had a highly organized ________ by 2,000 BC. There were skilled craftsmen, a______, and a highly organized system of t________.

Knossos societyrtists

rade

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Legend says that Zeus fell in love with a beautiful princess named E_____. He took the shape of a b____ and swam to Crete with her on his back.

They had three sons. One of their sons, M_________, became king of C_______, and his palace was at K__________.

inosrete

uropa

ull

nossos

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The First GreeksThe legend of Theseus says that once a year the Greeks in Athens were forced to send young men and women to Crete as food for a monster called the Minotaur, who had been born to the wife of Minos, King of Crete. It lived in a maze called the L_________, which was so confusing that people who entered it never found a way out. The M________ ate people who were thrown into the maze. Minos’ daughter fell in love with Theseus and gave him a special sword and a ball of t______ so he could find his way out of the maze.

Click here to see a map. Locate Athens and Crete on the map.

abyrinth

inotaur

hread

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The First GreeksFrescoes,

such as this man leaping on the back of a bull, are found on p______ walls in Crete. A fresco is made by applying paint to wet plaster. It seems that teams of young men and women approached a charging bull. One after the other grasped its h____, leaped onto its back, and then to the ground. Many experts believe this was a r________ ritual because the bull was a sacred animal. Why do you think the bull was a sacred animal?

alace

orns

eligious

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Hint: who was Minos’ father, and what did he look like when he first met Minos’ mother?)

The First GreeksIn about 1,450 BC

all the palaces on Crete were destroyed. A v_________ eruption on the island of Thera, about 70 miles north of Crete, blasted most of Thera away, causing tidal waves, earth tremors, flooding and destruction of c_____ on Crete. In about 1,450 BC, Crete was invaded by people from mainland Greece known as the M_____________.

olcanic

ropsycenaeans

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The First GreeksFrom about 1,600-1,100 BC mainland Greece was d_________ by a people called the Mycenaeans.

ominated

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Note to the teacher: See the note created for you in the edit mode “Notes” box.

The First GreeksThe M___________ lived in small k_________. Their name comes from the city of Mycenae, where remains of their culture were first d____________.

ycenaeans

ingdoms

iscovered

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The First GreeksThe Mycenaeans rebuilt the palace at K_______ on the island of Crete, and became the new rulers of the island.

nossos

Although they were divided into small kingdoms, the Mycenaeans were linked by their c_________. They all spoke an early form of Greek, and shared a common way of life and religious b_______. Odysseus was one of these Mycenaeans who ruled a small kingdom in I______.

ulture

eliefs

thaca

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The First GreeksOdysseus was the

famous leader who supposedly came up with the idea of the T_________ h_______.

Ithaca

Troy

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rojan orse

Some believe that Odysseus supposedly lived around 1,860 BC. Go to the website below and write a paragraph explaining how people came up with this date.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus)

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The Mycenaeans’ economic life worked well as long as they had good harvests. By looking at the diagram on the right, explain thesequence of events that would happen to their economic system if they had bad harvests.

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The First GreeksBy 1,200 BC, the Mycenaean world was breaking up. They experienced a series of poor h________, food shortages and then f_______. (A famine is when people starve because they don’t have enough food.) The Mycenaeans left mainland Greece and settled in other parts around the M_______________ Sea. (Extra credit: turn in a sheet of paper diagramming the cause and effects mentioned on slide 12.)

arvests

amine

editerranean

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The First GreeksThese

Mycenaeans became known as the S___ People. They came into conflict with the E____________, the Hittites, and others who lived in the places where the

Mycenaeans wanted to s_____.

ea

gyptians

ettle

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The First GreeksThe period from 1,100-800 BC is known as the D_____ A_____ of Greece because we know very little about what happened during that time. Many farming communities were destroyed duringdisturbances at the end of the Mycenaean period. The Mycenaean cities were abandoned. A tribe of people known as the D________ became the dominant Greeks of the area.

What was the dominant Greek group before the Dark Ages?

ark ges

orians

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The First GreeksThere are no written records from the Dark Ages, but the people had a strong o____________. Professional poets, known as b_____, traveled widely, passing on the stories of the gods and the Mycenaean heroes, such as Odysseus. One of these bards was H______, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

ral tradition

ards

omer

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If you have seen the Disney cartoon version of Robin Hood, think about the rooster whosings and tells the story of Robin Hood. He represents a “bard” Click the speaker to hear the song.

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The period from 800-500 BC is called the A_________ Period of Greece. It was a time of progress and expansion. Writing was re____________. The Greeks added vowels to their system. From whom did they get that idea? ______________

rchaic

The Phoenicians

-discovered

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Locate Ithaca, Crete, Sparta, Athens, the Mediterranean Sea andTroy on the map below. Use your book, the slide show, or theInternet. Due Date:_______________________________________

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Credits:The Greeks by Susan Peach, Anne Billard, illustrated by Ian Jackson, The Usborne Illustrated World History, published by EDC Publinshing, Tulsa, OK, 1990

PowerPoint by Marie Sontag, mesontag@hotmail.com

http://www.timetrek.org

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