Chapter 4 - The Greeks before History Flashcards
Middle/Late Bronze Age
(2300-1200) - ivasion, indo Europeans came, fire wiped everything out
-consolidation of who was left on Crete
Cnossus
capital of Minoan civilization on Crete
minotaur
born from minos’ wife, had blls head and human body. Labyrinth houses minotaur because he eats people
secondary sources
like Thucydides writings from 5th century about earlier events
second palace period
bigger and better palaces, built after earthquakes on Crete
linear A
a writing system that uses lines; organized supplies in palaces
-ONLY ON CRETE
redistributive centers
goods were kept there and apportioned out according to need
-command economy
command economy
only wheat on this hill, only olives on that one, according to gov’t.
-similar base to communism/socialism
Thalassocracy
“rule of Sea” - Thucydides described Mycenaeans; no fortification for palaces; ruled and protected through Nacy.
-Thalass = sea, -ocracy = rule/power
Akrotiri
archeological site, preserved by colvanic ash, Minoan Pompeii, non-Cretan palace
~1500 BC Mycenaeans began to thrive on mainland Greece and then eradicates Minoans
Grave Circle A
grave circle filled with artifacts, bronze weapons, gold pots ~1650 BC. Shaft graves bury people deeply, head first and vertically.
-FIRST EXCAVATION OF MYCENAEANS and they’re graves!
Heinrich Schleimann
found shaft graves from reading Homer, found Troy, found mask of Agamemnon
Late Bronze Age
when Mycenaean was in full afect
Pylos
on Peloponnese, have tholos tombs; like beehives
- “tholos” = spear, circular, above ground tomn
- most linear B tablets; Michael Ventris deciphered linear B as syllabary Greek
syllabary
pictogram that represents a syllable or two or four
