Bronze Age Flashcards
_______ dug up ruins of bronze age and proof of trojan war - rejected that it was a myth
Henerich Shlieman
________ was an archaeologist that dug up a palace - discovery of the Myceneans and Minoans
Sir Arthur Evans
Explain the Trojan war
Many kings banded together under the leadership of one king, and they sailed to troy and besieged it and fought a ten year long war
_____ was the foremost site of the Bronze Are culture in the Agean Sea
Crete
King minoe ruled greece and all surrounding areas, gained power due to his _______
sea power
Greeks had to pay King Minoe taxes which were? What did he do with these taxes?
7 boys and 7 girls to his palace in Cnssos
Minos would feed these children to his stepson, a minotaur
Minos’ wife cheated on him with a ____
bull
______ son of the king of Athens, was one of these tax children
______ _____ _______fell in love with him
She gave him a _____ and some _____
______ killed the minotaur; he escaped with
Minos’ daughter and then abandoned her
Theseus, son of the king of Athens, was one of these children
King Minos’ daughter fell in love with him
She gave him a sword and some string
Theseus killed the minotaur; he escaped with Minos’ daughter and then abandoned her
Stone ages included these three eras? explain them
Palaeolithic era - flinsstones typa beat - early humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers. They used basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals.
Mesolithic era - a transition from large chipped stone tools and hunting in groups of large herd animals to smaller ( microliths ) chipped stone tools and a more hunter-gatherer culture
Neolithic era - began when some groups of humans gave up the nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle completely to begin farming. Agricultural revolution
The ____ of ______ was a wo story structure built from clay and wooden framing with hundreds of people living inside
the House of Tile
________ was one of the places where early civilization developed. Ie cities, large scale irrigation, large populations, government, trade networks, legal system etc
“Cradle of Civilization” because many of the world’s oldest civilizations began in this area
Mesopotamia
_______ were known for their sea palaces, colourful art inside of them often decorated with sea life
Minoans
where are the minoans from?
Come from turkey and ukraine, found by using dna
Frescoes are
mural paintings
Minoans were discovered when ____ was dug up. Describe it
Palace at knossus n
Discovered when a large palace was dug up
Huge 3 acres large, 3 stories tall, no wall or weapons as they did not need protection being an elite sea power
Palace is the centre of community - distribution of goods, food, marriage, everything happens there
A shaft grave is
Expensive way of burying royal family members
Describe:
Linear A script
Linear B tablets
Linear A script - Cannot be deciphered
Linear B tablets - clay tablets with an indo european language (early form of greek)
- used for economic transactions of the palace administration
________ came Later in bronze era, took control of crete
Later in bronze era, took control of crete and mycenaean palaces appear on Greece and Crete
Describe the Mycenaeans hierarchy (hint there are 6)
King
Leader of army
Lords
Knights
Craftsmen
Slaves
The Mycenaeans kingdom was divided into
___ provinces
___ districts
____ communal villages, each with a leader
How kingdom was divided
2 provinces
7 districts
200 communal villages, each with a leader
How did the Myceneans end? (2)
Socioeconomic agents (domino effect):
- Mass migration
- More complicated = more vulnerable to collapse
- Civilizations are rigid so they cannot move to find new resources
or
Dorian invasion
- hercules’ sons got driven out
- hos grandsons came back and invaded
Tholos tombs are…
Beehive tomb used by Mycs to bury their dead
Built into slopes of hills
