Mr. Schick Gone Blind

Today in class we continued taking notes on Ancient Greece and he got to hear some of the Odyssey by Homer himself! Homer (Mr. Schick) stumbled into the classroom, running into a few desks in the process. He sat down and blindly argued with a few of us and actually got into it with Adam. Homer then proceeded to stand up and send two desks flying, scared Adam, and sent the class into extreme laughter. Once he calmed himself he began to read his favorite part of the Odyssey. Homer read all the way until the end of class so that is all we did. The notes I took in class are below.

-Ionian sea also surrounds Greece along with the Adriatic Sea and Aegean Sea
-Ancient Greeks were skilled sailors and shipbuilders, also farmers, metalworkers, weavers and potters
-Had poor/limited resources so they needed to trade
-Only 20% of the land was arable
-Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, and olives
-Could make wine from grapes, therefore they traded a lot of wine
-lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
-temperatures ranged from mid 40s to low 80s. It could get pretty hot in the summer but overall it was nice year round
Mycenaeans 
-Influence began around 2000 B.C.E.
-Located on rocky ridge, protected by 20 ft thick wall
-Mycenaeans dominated Greece from 1600 B.C.E-1200 B.C.E.
-Controlled trade in the region
-1400 B.C.E. Mycenaeans invaded Crete an absorbed Minan culture and language
-Around 1200 B.C.E. the "sea people" invaded Mycenae, and burnt places
-The Dorians moved into this region
-They were less advanced
-Trade based economy collapsed
-Writing disappeared for 400 years
Homer
- Greek oral tradition- stories passed by word of mouth
- Lived at the end of "Greek Dark Ages"
- Composed stories of Trojan War 750-700 B.C.E.
-The Illiad- one of the last conquests of the Mycenaeans(Trojan War)
-The Odyssey- Odysseus attempt to return home but Poseidon kept throwing him off course
-Odyssey was 12,100 lines of dactylic hexameter
-Greek loved mythology and their Greek Gods and Goddesses
-"Homeric Question" Homer may have been a mythical creation himself
-Illiad and Odyssey may be culmination of storytelling
-Or Homer actually existed