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ANCIENT GREECE - GEOGRAPHY - ACTIVATING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, PG 273, PG 274,…
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PG 273
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Many Greeks where fishers, sailors, or traders.
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Using sea travel, all coast line settlements will be in contact with each other.
Through migration, moving from place to place, the Greek shared many different ideas and religious beliefs.
The Greeks knew the sea was not as ways the safest way to get somewhere. Sailing was dangerous, especially in winter, when the wind is the strongest.
The Greeks believed that Poseidon ruled over the seas, he watched over the sailors and their boats.
They believed that the sea reflected Poseidon's mood. If the sea was rough, it was because he was in a bad mood.
Despite this, the Greeks depended on it for food and the crossing of good ideas.
PG 274
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The fact that the Greeks found out that olives, grapes, and grain was huge.
They did not only create a steady food supply, they created a surplus.
Not everyone where farmers, or herders, new jobs where coming up like craft workers.
They fashioned tools, containers, clothing, and decorative objects from natural resources such as wood, clay, bone, stone, and metal.
These people did not make their own food, instead they exchanged there goods with the farmers for food.
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For example: The Greeks could easily grow barley but had less success growing wheat which made better tasting bread, so what the Greeks did was they give other countries their own goods such as wine, olive oil, pottery, and wood for wheat.
PG 275
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Because of trade, the merchants would come back with the other countries ideas as well as their goods.
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For example, the Greeks learn that if you mix copper and tin, it becomes bronze from the Asians.
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