Ancient Greece Hansen

The _______kept the Greeks isolated from each other and, as a result, they developed independently

• constant fighting

• Mediterranean Sea

• rivers

• mountains

šThe ________ Civilization (connected to the myth of the lost city of Atlantis) came before and influenced the Mycenaeans.

• Mesopotamian

• Minoan

• Egyptian

• Roman

Homer, poet and author of the Iliad and the Odyssey (books that discuss the Battle of Troy and the adventures of Odysseus) lived during the time of the _____________ Civilization

• Minoan

• CLassical Greek

• Mycenaean

• Hellenistic

Historians call the time period of Ancient Greece from 1100 – 750 B.C. the Dark Age because ______________________

• very few written records exist

• electricity was not widely used

• many bad things happened during this time

• there was collapse of civilization

The Greeks adopted the alphabet of the __________

• Egyptians

• Phoenicians

• Lebanese

• Minoans