Identifier: historyofancient03good (find matches)
Title: A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goodspeed, George Stephen, 1860-1905
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he Mycenaean strongholds and a transformation in allspheres of Greek life. Chief among these invading tribeswere the Dorians, and their leaders were at the head ofaffairs in the centuries that followed. The seat of theirpower was the Peloponnesus, which henceforth becamefor a long time the centre of Greece. Similar migrationsand shiftings of population in the following centuriesthrew the rest of the eastern communities of Greece intoconfusion. The Mycenaean world of Asia Minor and theislands was also disturbed, though, of course, not in a likedegree. Many fled thither from before the intruders.In course of time the Dorians themselves settled upon thesouthern islands and the lower coasts of Asia Minor.The unity of the Mycenaean world was destroyed. OUTLINE FOR REVIEW II. THE GREEK EMPIRES Preliminary Survey: Physical Geography of Greece—its influence (i) onthe history both external and internal, (2) on Greek character—theGreek people—course of their history—its grand divisions.
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o< < H o PL, p O oo wPi The Greek Middle Age 81 I. The Beginnings of Greece and Its Expansion. Our knowledgeof the earliest period and its sources—the Mycenaean Age—theremains and their story—Mycena.an commerce, its extent andcharacter—wars and their memorials—how the age came to anend and when. REVIEW EXERCISES. 1. What part do the following play inthe physical geography of Greece: the i^gean, the Pindus, thegulf of Corinth ? 2. For what are the following places noted:Mycenae, Troy, Cnossos? 3. Locate from memory on an out-line map the chief points at which remains of Mycenaeancivilization have been found. 4. At about what time was theMycenaean civilization at its height? 5. At about what timedid the Dorian invasions occur? COMPARATIVE STUDIES. 1. What was going on in the Ori-ental world between the above dates? 2. Compare the arti-cles of commerce of the Mycenaean Greeks with those of thePhcEnicians (§ 56). 3. Compare the effect of the Dorian inva-sion of Greece wit

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