More notes on the slide presentation

Today in class, we took more notes on the slide presentation on ancient Greece. I am pretty sure everyone in the class took a decent number of notes in their notebooks. Warring city-states. Some essential government terms. Polis- fundamental political unit, made up of a city and the surrounding countryside. Politics (affairs of the cities), policy, political, etc. Monarchy- rule by a single person (a king, in Greece). Aristocracy- rule by a small group of noble, very rich, landowning families. Oligarchy- wealthy groups, dissatisfied with aristocratic rule, who seized power (often with military help). Tyrant- powerful individual who seized control by appealing to the common people for support. Those were all the notes and terms that we recorded on the slideshow. After that, Mr. Schick allowed us time to finish taking the notes in the pages 118-126. Cultures of the Mountains and the Sea continued...In ancient times, Greece was not a united country. It was a collection of separate lands were Greek-speaking people lived. The sea shaped Greek civilization just as rivers shaped the ancient civilizations of Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, India, and China. The Greeks lived around a sea. Greeks rarely had to travel more than 85 miles to reach the coastline. Rugged mountains covered about three/fourths of ancient Greece. The mountain chain ran mainly from Northwest to Southwest along the Balkan peninsula. The small streams that watered their valleys were not suitable for large-scale irrigation projects. Climate was the third important environment influence on Greek civilization. Greece has a varied climate, with temperatures averaging 48 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. Some of the people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2,000 B.C were later known as Myceneans. The name came from their leading city, Mycenae. Mycenae was located in Southern Greece on a steep, rocky ridge and surrounded by a protective wall more than 20 feet thick. Those were all the notes that I jotted down on those textbook pages, that is mostly all we did today in class.