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The world's greatest civilizations were all located by rivers. The Greeks, Mesopotamians, and Egyptians were the ones we learned about but there were several more. Greece was mainly a mountainous peninsula. It was split into mini civilizations called city-states. It was difficult to unite the city-states due to the terrain and their loyalty to each other. A person would think of themselves solely as a Spartan before they would think of their fellow sisters and brothers in other city-states.
More Notes From Textbook:
-The Dorians moved into war-torn countryside
-They may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age greeks
-Legend states that the greatest story teller was a blind man named Homer
-Some believe he composed his epics celebrating heroic deeds
-Iliad was one of his greatest poems (it was about the trojan war)
-Greeks developed myths and traditional stories about their gods
-They attributed human qualities such as love hate war wisdom to their gods and goddesses

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