History Flashcards
The Bronze Age
- early (3000-2000BC)
- middle (2000-1600bc)
- late (1600-1100 BC)
(Minoan, Cycladic, Helladic)
+ Mycenaean in the late Bronze Age
The flood tablet
Related to the epic of gilgamesh
Neolithic age
(6500-3000BC)
Farming villages, pottery, domesticating animals
Early agricultural society
Bronze Age in Crete is designated as the
Minoan
Minoan (3000-2000BC)
Early Bronze Age
Crete, cnossus
Thalassocracy, trade , powerful on the sea
Linear A writing system (non Greek language)
Matriarchal religion? Ruled by women?
Middle Bronze Age
(2000-1600)
Eruption of thera ( greatest volcanic eruption, blew out the entire center of the island)
First wave of IE invaders
IE language becomes Greek
Male-dominated gods, located on Mt Olympus
Linear B
Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean)
1600-1100 bc Mycenaean takeover Invasion of Crete Cnossus destroyed Trojan war Mycenae tiryns Argos
Archaic period
800-480 Homer Hesiod Homeric hymns Olympic Games City states emerge
Classical period
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides Athenian democracy
Macedonian conquest
End of the classical period
Alexander the Great
Phillip of Macedon
Hellenistic period
323-31
Greece becomes Roman province in 146bc