Greece Questions

1.
- The Mycenaean people settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 BC and most of their culture is from the Minoan people.
- The Trojan War was a ten year war between the Mycenaeans and Troy.
- The Dorian people spoke a dialect of Greek and may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Greeks.
- Homer was a blind man who composed epic poems.
- An epic was a narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds.
- A myth was a traditional story about their gods.

3. The Greeks lacked natural resources so they relied on the sea to trade.

4. Mycenaeans adapted the Minoan writing system to the greek language and decorated vases with Minoan designs. Minoan culture formed the core of Greek religious practice, art, politics, and literature.

5. The epics were important because instead of writing stories down they were told by speaking because writing had seemed to disappear in the Dorian period.