Tuesday 11, 2013

Today in class we went over a power point about ancient Greece. We talked about the geographic feature and how Greece is a mountainous peninsula, 3/4 of Greece is mountains. There are about 1,400 islands surrounding Greece. Their location shaped their culture; there are many skilled sailors due to all the mountains. It was also very difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain so the developed small independent communities. We also went over the definition of a barbarian, who are tribal people who eventually come into contact with the civilizations of the east. In 2500 BC Indo-European (all the people who live in and migrate from India to Europe.) nomads from the steppes migrate into Europe and the European barbarian way of live evolved. We also talked about the Parthenon which sits on the top of the Acropolis in Athens. At the end of class we learned at Mediterranean means the middle of the world. Because there wasn't much traveling around the world the Greeks believed that they were in the middle of the world.