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Greeks and Persians (The Early Greeks (Geography (Geography's…

- - - - Several small river valleys & plains
      - Mountains
    - - Enabled seafaring
      - Limited large-scale farming
      - Isolated city-states, maintained independence from one another
  - - - Mycenae on Peloponnese
      - Several other city-states on mainland, islands, & Asia Minor
    - - All-powerful wealthy kings
      - Fortified cities
      - Artwork
      - Accounts from other civilizations
      - Heavily armed
      - Trojan War?
    - - Dorians move south into Peloponnese
      - Civilization enters Dark Age (c. 1100-750 BC)
      - Likely caused by warefare
  - - - Mainland
      - Islands
      - Ionia
      - Italy
      - North Africa
    - - Dorians (Peloponnese-Sparta)
      - Others throughout Greece
    - - Language (different dialects)
      - Religion
        
        Polytheistic
        
        Gods are humanlike
    - - Trade, develop ideas
      - Develop common alphabet from Pheonicians
      - Stories of Greek heroics
        
        Sung by traveling bards
        
        Developed into Homer's Iliad and Odyssy
        
        Stressed individual achievements