Ch. 8 Section 1 Vocabulary

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Greek poet, he wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, two famous Greek epic poems.  They describe the deeds of heroes during and after the Trojan War

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Homer

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Built an advanced society on the island of Crete. They were expert sailors and became wealthy through trade. Minoans did not speak Greek.

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Minoan

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Lived on mainland Greece, were warlike and considered the first Greek society because they spoke Greek. They invaded  Crete and adopted much of the Minoan culture.

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Mycenaean

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A Greek hero in Homer’s epic poem “Iliad and the Odyssey” about the Trojan War. 

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Odysseus

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A war fought between the Greeks and the Anatolian city of Troy around 1200B.C.

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Trojan War

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Worship of many gods

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polytheistic

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an old story told to explain an even or justify a belief or action.

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myth

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a maze

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labyrinth

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A substance from which other things are made.

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raw material

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a long story in the form of a narrative poem

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epic poem