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Trojan War

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  • Troy - modern day Turkey
  • Mycenaean - Peloponnesus
  • war to control Aegean sea
  • Paris’ and Helen’s marriage
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Trojan war quotes

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  • beware of Greeks bearing gifts
  • a face that launched a thousand ships (Helen of Sparta)
  • Achilles’ heel
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dark ages

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  • c. 1150 BC Mycenaeans fall to invaders
  • Dorians move in from N Greece
  • written language disappears
  • oral tradition
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isolation

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  • writing began again c. 800 BC
  • based on Phoenician alphabet
  • 700s BC Homer writes epic poems, The Iliad, The Odyssey

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