- valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula
- 20% is suitable for farming
- Diet+ grains,grapes,olives, and fish
- lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
- pretty nice weather year round
- influence around 2000 bc
- Mycenae is location on a rocked ridge on Peloponnesus
- protected by a 20 foot thick wall
- Mycenaen Kings domination Greece from 1600-1100 BCE
- controlled trade in region
- 1400 BCE - Mycenaens invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture
Trojan War
- Greeks have fought in many wars
- Trojan war was fought in 12th - 13th century BCE
- part of Greek mythology- until the 19th century most historical thought it was fictional because gods and goddesses got invloved
- the goddesses Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera were given the "apple of discord"
- Paris judged Aphrodite as "the fairest"
- Aphrodite made Helen (married) fall in love with Paris, who took her back to Troy
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