Cyber Day 3/17/2014

• Greece doesn't have much fertile land.
• About 3/4 of Greece is covered by mountains.
• Barbarian is a life based upon farming, warfare, and tribal organization.
• Megalithic are massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs
• A tribe is a social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, tradition, and real or mythical ties of kinship.
• Tribes were governed by warrior kings or queens. 
• The first European barbarian people to make contact with civilization were the Greeks.
• China would not be considered a member of the western civilization.
• The Ionian Sea is located west of the Greeks mainland.
• The Aegean Sea is located east of the Greek’s mainland.
• The major crops the Aegean people lived on are grains, vines, and olives.
• Minoan civilization arose on the island of Crete.
• Mycenaean’s established settlements along the Greek mainland southern shore and on some islands. 
• The Mycenaean people built massive walls to protect themselves from attack.
• The Dark Age is when the population dropped, ships no longer sailed, and writing fell out of use. 
• The Greeks joined the Phoenicians.
• "c" means around, about, and circa.
• Greek city states that dotted around the coastline around the Mediterranean sea were called colonies
• Ancient Greek city-states most closely resembled counties.
•  A oligarchy is were a small group of citizens dominated, and the power of the majority was limited in various ways.
• A democracy is a form of government in which decisions were made by the majority of adult male citizens.
• A tyranny is a form of government in which a self-proclaimed dictator held power.
• A monarchy is a form of government in which power is held by a single ruler, and is often passed along from father to son.
• Spartans used oligarchy.
• Boys were taken by the age of seven to begin their military training.
• Athens was the wealthiest city-state.
• An acropolis was the high fortified citadel and religious center of an ancient Greek town.
• Sparta is located on the Peloponnesus peninsula.
• Triremes were massive fighting ships with three banks of oars, used to ram or board enemy ships.  
• Hoplite was a heavily armed and armored citizen-solider of ancient Greece.
•  The time period when the Greek population dropped, ships no longer sailed, and writing fell out of use was called The Dark ages. The Dark Ages began 1100 b.c. and ended 700 b.c.
• Homer wrote The Iliad and the Odyssey.
• The word “Mediterranean” originally meant middle of the earth.
• Prominent and long-established Athenian land-owners were called aristocrats.