Know were Greece is located


- a peninsula
- coverd 3/4 by mt.
- poor natural resources
- location shaped its culture
- skilled sailors
- 20% is good farming land
- their diet was grains, grapes, olives
- temp. goes from around 48* (winter) to 80*(summer)


Mycenaeans
- began around 2000bc
- protected by a 20 foot wall
- dominated Greece from 1600-120bc
- the Dorians took over around 1200bc
- wrighting disappeared for 400 years