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Name:_____________________ MYCENAE, THE CITY: The Mycenaeans were originally a group of __barbarians___ who moved from Europe southward into Greece. In the ___Peloponnesus________ they built their main city of Mycenae. The city had huge __walls__, access to the sea, a fresh __water__ supply, and only one main entrance, the _Lion’s___ Gate. In the center of the city there was a __megaron___, a huge room with a fireplace in the center for holding parties and meetings. CONTACT WITH THE MINOANS: Because of their vast trade routes the Minoans traded with the Mycenaeans and taught them how to _write__ and make __ships__. Mycenaeans writing has been called ___Linear B___ because it has its origins from the Minoans’ Linear A. Over time the Mycenaeans greedy to control trade in the ___Mediterranean__ Sea came to Crete and conquered the island. Historians believe that either the conquest by the Mycenaens or a _volcanic__ eruption ended Minoan civilization. Over time the Myceneans adopted much of Minoan culture and even began to shave their _beards__. MYCENAEAN SOCIETY: The Mycenaens lived mainly in __warrior__ tribes and owed their loyalty to a __king__. The warriors worked and fought for _land_ that was given to them by their king. Often _slaves_, who were conquered in war, or _tenants_, people who lived on someone else’s land, worked the fields. THE TROJAN WAR: Much of what we know about Mycenaean society comes from a blind poet named _Homer__ who wrote two epic _poems__ called the __Iliad__ and the __Odyssey__. The poems tell about how the Mycenaens attacked the city of _Troy__ in __Asia_ _Minor__. The story of the Illiad tells about how a Trojan prince named _Paris_ stole the wife of the Mycenaen king of Sparta and how the Mycenaeans fought for _10_ years to conquer the city. The Mycenaeans according to Homer snuck into the city by building a large wooden horse (the __Trojan__ __Horse_) and killed all the Trojans and won the war. The Odyssey tells of how Odysseus, the man whose idea it was to built the horse, returns home after the war, a _10_ year journey. Historians believe these poems taught the Greeks _values__, history, and __geography_. THE DARK AGES: Doric Ionic Corinthian When the Mycenaens returned from Troy they began to fight each other in a series of __civil__ wars, a war between a place’s own people. These wars allowed a group of people called the __Dorians___ to move into Greece and conquer much of the Greek mainland. Many Mycenaens fled Greece to the other side of the __Aegean__ Sea and made towns in Asia Minor. The Greeks who moved to Asia Minor were called _Ionians_. With the Dorians in control the Greeks had a “Dark Age” in which _writing__ and contact with the other civilizations in the Mediterranean region stopped. The only thing the Dorians gave Greek society was the ability to make _columns_ to support their buildings. Later the Greeks, who would call themselves _Hellenes_, would develop different styles of columns.