Facts on Greece

The Greeks were very good traders because they were skilled sailors. They traded grapes olives and grains with people who lived in/near the Mediterranean sea. In Greece there was not really anywhere to grow a lot of types of food except for grapes, olives, and grains. Olives were very essential because they could be made into many things such as soaps and oil. Also they only grown in Greece and Rome, but Greece was better at transporting and trading their olives.The temperature in Greece was usually a high of 80's in the summer and a low of 40's in the winter
The Mycenaeans, Around 2000 BCE they influenced what was going on in Greece and made a 20 foot thick wall around the city-state. The Myceneans ruled over Greece with kings from 1600 BCE to  1200 BCE. Once they invaded the Dorians they mixed their cultures and languages.These people were constantly invaded by the "sea people" and the sea people would burn everything. There is not a lot of information on these people because they did not write down anything for a long period of time. This period of time was called the "Greek Dark Ages" During this time a blind story teller composed stories about the Trojan War. Homer wrote stories like Iliad which is about the last conquest of the Myceneans. The Odyssey was a story about a man trying to get back home and his journey is thwarted by Posiden. There is a theory that homer didn't even exist and that the stories were just multiple people making it up together. This theory is called "Homeric question"