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Ancient Greece Captions __ Ancient Greece Captions for G.E.T Flight __ __Attica-__ **Attica is a peninsula which is located in Greece which some of the best farmlands lie on. Attica lies on the Mediterranean Sea. The features of the soil are ****rugged mountains and hills. The two large peninsulas are Attica and Peloponnesus. The climate in Attica was challenging for farmers because the summers were very hot and dry and left the farmer’s fields dusty and lifeless. In the winter, it was windy and very rainy, and the fields became soggy from rain. The plants that did well in Greece included barley, wheat, grapes, and olives. The animals that did well in Greece included sheep, goats, and cattle. ** __Peloponnesus-__ Peloponnesus is one of the two large peninsulas that make up the Greek mainland. The large peninsula is a mountainous region ringed by a thin band of fertile land. The Peloponnesus has several small rivers and most of these dry up in the summer. On Peloponnesus the valuable metal that the Mycenaens traded was precious metal from the Greek mainland. They traded this to Minoan exports. __Athens-__ In Ancient Greece Olive Oil was considered a “cash crop,” this means it was the most valuable crop in Ancient Greece times. The people of Ancient Greece had many uses for Olive Oil, they use it for cooking food, flavoring food, and they used it as body oil and lamp fuel. In Ancient Greece the key food staple that they could not grow enough for of them-selves was grain. In order to get grain they had to trade their good growing crops with other people. An acropolis was a walled hill where people of the city could feel safety during an enemy attack. Farmers gathered at the agora near the acropolis to trade with each other and with local craft workers. The agora also served as a place for town meetings. In Ancient Greece pottery was an important traded product or commodity. Pottery also was good for storing and protecting food such as wine or grain on long voyages. It was also collected as a work of art. __Crete-__ In Crete, they traded with lots of people. The Minoans exported pottery, metalwork, wine, and olive oil. The Myceneans traded precious metals with the Minoans . __Mediterranean Sea-__ Sailing was a very important part of the life and culture of Greece because sailing allowed Greeks to go to other places in order to trade with other people for grain. In Ancient Greece pottery was an important traded product or commodity. It also good for storing and protecting foods such as wine or grain on long voyages. Pottery was also collected as a work of art. __Delphi-__ In Delphi, the Greeks adapted to the land in the way they built amphitheaters to use as an open-air venue used for entertainment and performances. Big towns in Ancient Greece began to use limestone and marble to build the amphitheaters.

**Mycenae,: Citadel walls for protection; corbell arch; corbell dome. ****Samos: Making tunnel unders a mountain for an aqueduct. ****Athens: Quarrying stone and building the Parthenon on top of the Acropolis ** __Mycenae-__ **In Mycenae, they had citadel walls for protection. Citadel walls were protective walls that kept Greece safe from any enemies attacking. These walls were thick, defensive fortification walls. Each block for these walls were 10 tons each. They were engineered to fit perfectly into place with the other blocks. The Lion’s Gate appears to be post and lintel gate. The architectural structure was a system of corbeling which was stacking blocks diagonally which would counterbalance the arch from tipping over. This was a great invention that the Mycenaean’s invented. They also invented the corbel dome which was used in a tomb called tholos. It looks like a beehive with earth built up around it. ** __Samos____- __ Around the time of 450 B.C. there was a tyrant named Polycrates. Polycrates came to rule the island city-state of Samos. The people needed to solve the problem of connecting the city-state of Samos with a mountain spring on the other side of Mount Castro. Eupalinos was the engineer of Polycrates. Eupalinos came up with the idea of tunneling under Mount Castro. These tunnels were dug on opposite sides of each other. The tunnels had to be at the same horizontal and vertical. The people used geometry to figure out where to put the two opposing tunnels. The two tunnels met 24 inches of each difference from each other. The tunnels had a discrepancy of less than 1/8 of 1% of the tunnel’s 3,500 foot length. __Athens-__

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