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O'Donnell Matt O'Donnell Fortification of greece Link http://www.angelfire.com/moon/kaori_tominaga/minoan.html There are many beliefs about why the Minoans don’t have forts/ walls around their cities. I believe most of these are true and are a combined reason for why they didn’t protect their cities. The main reason is because the Minoans already had a natural border, the sea. They were located on an island and maybe their intruders couldn’t reach the island. Another believed reason is that they had a strong navy, and if attacked would take care of it with their military skill. Some others believe it was religion, and since they believed in peace, didn’t put up walls that symbolized war. I believe all of these reasons had a part in why the Minoans didn’t worry about protection.

Correction: Other civilizations of the day in fact did have the shipbuilding knowledge to create ships that could have reached the Island of Crete. http://www.greece.org/poseidon/work/articles/polemis_one.html

Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's Horse http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_t31.html http://www.equinenet.org/heroes/bucephal.html http://www.alexander-the-great.co.uk/bucephalus.htm Bucephalus wouldn’t have been the great horse if he wasn’t brought up by Alexander the Great. Alexander raised the horse himself when he was a young teenager. The horse was wild to begin with, but then Alexander trained him and calmed him. Alexander noticed that he was afraid of his shadow, so he always made the horse look into the sun, so he wouldn’t see his shadow and wouldn’t be afraid of it. This shows how smart and witty Alexander the Great was. This event along with many other showed his capabilities that he used while he was conquering.

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Basing this thesis off of these primary sources (vases), the greeks made their art very geometric, and very organized. The Pottery is ery well layed out in patterns and disigns. It seems like if they did something to one side, they would do that to the other. Anther characteristic of Greek art and pottery is that it is based on religion or beliefs. Some shapes represent word or meaning that have to do with religion. The Greek probably spent along time on their art to make it perfect.

This link is AWESOME--- It gives you a brief intro on GREEK SCULPTING, and then has a lot of different links for each period of sculpting. CHECK IT http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/sculpture/classical.htm

Greek sculpting changed a lot to become the great, amazing sculptures we know about today. The first sculptures they ever made were raged with many strait and simple lines and shapes. These were made out of stone.http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/sculpture/classical.htm Then the Minonians started to make little sculptures out of bronze and ivory.http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/sculpture/pictures/goddess.jpg Later, the greeks made more sculptures out of stoneagain. This could have been because of a prosperous econemy. These were different then the earlier ones though. They were large, some bigger than life size, and they began to slightly focus on the males body. This may have symbolized strength and endourance. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/sculpture/pictures/kleobisnbiton.jpg These changes advanced. The Greeks figured out how to make the amazing sculptures that we see in museum. These changes included; smoother surface and lines, more and more focus on the physical male body,new focuses on women, feelings and emotions in ther sculptures. Here is one of the most famous sculptures. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/sculpture/pictures/discobolos.jpg