Today we took notes off of the new PowerPoint for the first half class and then for the second half we took more individual notes from the textbook again. Here are some of my notes from today:
The world's greatest civilizations were all located by rivers. The Greeks, Mesopotamians, and Egyptians were the ones we learned about but there were several more. Greece was mainly a mountainous peninsula. It was split into mini civilizations called city-states. It was difficult to unite the city-states due to the terrain and their loyalty to each other. A person would think of themselves solely as a Spartan before they would think of their fellow sisters and brothers in other city-states.
-The Dorians moved into the war-torn countryside
-They may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Greeks
-Legend states that the greatest storyteller was a blind man named Homer
-Some believe he composed his epics celebrating heroic deeds
-Iliad was one of his greatest poems (it was about the Trojan war)
-Greeks developed myths and traditional stories about their gods
-They attributed human qualities such as love, hate, war, and wisdom to their gods and goddesses
this is good
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