By trading with Phoenicians, the Greeks adopted an alphabet Phoenician traders used and adapted it.

Central Asia.

The Mycenaeans conquered the Minoans and ended up controlling the Aegean area.

Male citizens hold many rights like voting, hold public office, own property, and defend themselves in court.

The king lived in a palace surrounded by walls built on a hill. Nobles lived on farm estates outside the walls. Workers and slaves lived in villages.

Ship building, bronze working, sun and stars navigation, Earth Mother worshipping.

Wine, olive oil and pottery. (2 to win)

Italy, Sicily, France, Spain, North Africa and Western Asia.

Land sorrounded by water on three sides.

Storytellers who wrote or acted poems about heroes and their deeds.

Hoplites.

1800s with a German archaeologist called Heinrich Schliemann who discovered the ruins of a palace in Mycenae.

Descendants from the Mycenaeans who after escaping the Dorians came back to the Greek mainland. These were the first formal Greeks.