Early Ancient Greek Civilizations Flashcards
3000-1400
Minoan civilization
1100
Dorian Invasion
2800-1050
Bronze Age
Frescoe
Paintings done on walls when plaster was still wet
Minoan Art
Protogeometric Pottery
Degenerate form, lifeless designs
Used after Dorian Invasion
Geometric Pottery
Repeating patterns, Greek-Key and meander
Black figure
6th Century
Black figures on red background
Scenes of mythology
Red Figure
5th and 4th Centuries
Red figures on a black background
Scenes from life of times
Toreutics
Metal working
Penethea
Golden Age
How to make Bronze?
Blend of tin and copper
2400
Cretan civilization flourishes
Cretan resources
Wool and oil
Cretan palaces
KNOSSUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Phaetus, Mallia, Crossus, and Gartyn too
Thalassocrocy
Rule of the sea
Cretan King
Minos
Symbols for Cretan Monarchy
Labrys, Double Axe, Fleur-de-lis
1900
Earthquakes destroy Cretan palaces
1600
Everything in Crete is rebuilt
What did Crete have that was not equaled until the Victorian Age?
Plumbing
Daedalus
Architect of the Labyrinth
Labyrinth
Where Minotaur was kept
1400
Cretan palaces destroyed by Mycenaean Invaders
1287
Battle of Cadesh
Between Egyptians and Hittites
c. 1500
Eruption of Thera
Linear B
Inventory lists
Deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick
c. 1250
Final destruction at Knossus
Synoikismos
Closest bindings of communities
Chief entertainment of Crete
Bull fighting
Religion
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NO OLYMPIAN GODS
Instead of temples, Crete had-
Altars