more Ancient Greece

Today in class we continued the Google Slides presentation on Ancient Greece and continued to take notes in our comp books. Here are some of the notes that I took in today's class:
-around 1200 BCE the mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae
-the Dorians moved into this war-torn region, dominating from 1150-750 BCE
-Dorians were far less advanced
-the trade-based economy collapsed
-writing dissapeared for 400 years
-Greek oral tradition-stories passed on my mouth
-Homer lived at the end of these "Greek Dark Ages"
-he composed stories of the Trojan War
-The lliad- probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaens (The Trojan War)
-The Odyssey- Oddysseus attempts to return home after the Trojan War, being thwarted by the angry god of the sea, Poseidon
-The Odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter
-the "homeric question"- Homer may have been a mythical creation himself
-a blind wandering minstrel; a heroic figure
-lliad and Odyssey may be the culmination of many generations of storytelling
-or Homer actually existed and he was just that awesome
After this the bell rang and ended class.

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