Greeks and Trojans

Today in class we focused on the Greeks and Trojans. The Greek diet consisted of grapes, grains, olives and fish. The lack of resources led to Greek colonization. Back in that time, the average temperature in this land ranged from the mid forties Fahrenheit in the winter, to the lows eighties Fahrenheit in the summer. One of the earliest people were the Mycenaeans. Their influence began around two-thousand B.C. Mycenae located on the rocky-ridge, Peloponnesus. Peloponnesus was protected by a twenty foot thick wall. Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from sixteen hundred B.C. to eleven hundred B.C. They controlled trade in the region. In fourteen hundred B.C. Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture. Next, we focused on the fact and fiction of the Trojan War. The Trojans were a clever and skillful people. Weather o not most of their stories and legends are true, they still have an interesting story. Mr. Schick went on to tell us about how when sailing through seas full of sirens(mermaids)one captain had his crew tie him to the ship while all the other stuffed wax in their ears in order to not get caught by the sound of the mermaids. The captain was strapped down in order to be able to tell others of how they sounded to help them avoid trouble. 

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