Layers of Troy

Question 1

what are the facts historians agree upon Troy and Trojan war?

Answer 1

• Troy was powerful city-state in the Aegean world
• engaged in trade in Aegean and Mediterranean area
• Troy was supposedly attacked by Greek city states in the Late Bronze Age Period (c. 1550BC)
• Troy was supposedly a large and heavily fortified city
• Troy was supposedly attacked and burned by the Greeks

Question 2

Which layer is most likely to be that of Homer’s troy?

Answer 2

layer 7a as city was supposedly attacked by Greek city-states in Late Bronze Age period and layer corresponds with this info

Question 3

What are artefacts that can be used as evidence to support theory of troy 7a?

Answer 3

condition and location of houses, repaired walls and human skeletons

Question 4

What can the condition and locations of houses means?

Answer 4

• houses in layer hastily rebuilt. Homer’s Iliad describes a 10 year war and hence some areas may have been attacked as Troy was very large
• Houses quickly rebuilt to keep civili. actie and provide shelter
• crowding of houses inside and outside wall may indicate an overpopulation of city, evidence of how city powerful and developed like Troy

Question 5

Repaired wall mean?

Answer 5

example of attack and how civilians quickly rebuilt/repaired it. (Troy large and heavily fortified , siege)

Question 6

Skeletons mean?

Answer 6

• human skeletons found in homes and streets, without burial indicates death in which no one was able to retrieve it for proper burial (attack or poverty=siege)
• may have been war, where dead bodies left to decompose.
• also twisted skeleton with crushed skull clearly show evidence of violent death, where battle/war may have occurred.

Question 7

What was level 6?

Answer 7

height of Troy’s power and when city flourished

Question 8

What was occurring level 6?

Answer 8

• advances in machinery and engineering: walls, towers, gates, palace (developed society)
• streets showed town planning
• imported ivory and Mycenaean pottery (trade)
• new pottery style of Grey Mycenaean ware and well made Bronze weapons
• colonisation and empire expanding
• lower city surrounded by ditch,
• this believed to be city in contact with Mycenaeans at height of power.