Western Civ Blog 11

Today in class we answered questions 1, 3, 4, and 3 on page 126. Mycenaeans are some of the people who steeled on. the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C. The Trojan War was a war fought between the Mycenaeans and Troy in the 1200's B.C. Dorians were the people who moved into the war- torn countryside. Home was the greatest storyteller, he was a blindman. Epics were narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds. Myths are stories about gods.The nearness top the sea had an major impact on Greece and Greeces development. The sea's were good transportation routs for the Greeks. The seaway linked most parts of Greece together. Skilled sailors and sea travel connected Greece with other societies. Trade was improved because of the waterways. Greece lacked in many natural resources such as timber, precious metal, and usable farmland, but they were able to get the. resources through trade.  The Mycenaeans adopted the Minoan writing system to the greek language and decorated cases with the Minoan designs. The epics were important to the Greeks during the Dorian period because the Greeks temporarily lost the art of writing. the Greeks learned about the Epics of Homer, and he told the Greeks about their history.