A New Year a New Unit, Greece
The 6th graders are currently studying Greece a peninsula covered with mountains in southern Europe. By 550 B.C. Greece became the greatest traders in the entire Aegean region. All of Greece is within 80 miles of sea, which makes trading easy. Ancient Greece started as to city-states or “pilos”, the Minoans and the Mycenaean’s. The Minoans were rich with wood, olive oil, and pottery but did not speak the Greek language. So The Mycenaean’s became the first official Greeks who also invented the Greek language. Greece like any other country had disasters. After the huge eruption of Mt. Thera the whole island of Crete was wiped out. I’m sure this Greece unit will be a “BLAST”.