Timeline 1

Question 1

7000-3000 BCE

Answer 1

Neolithic: permanent farming villages first seen; Domestication of plants and animals; pottery

Question 2

3000-2100 BCE

Answer 2

Early Bronze Age

1. ) Social Ranking emerges
2. ) Villages and Districts emerge
3. ) Ruled by hereditary Chiefs
4. ) 2500: widespread use of Bronze and other metals in Aegen

Question 3

2100-1600

Answer 3

Middle Bronze Age:

1. ) Indo-Europeans possibly bring about end of early bronze age and beginning of middle bronze age.
2. ) Indo-european goods introduced to Greece
3. ) Minoans/Linear A

Question 4

Lerna/House of Tiles

Answer 4

Early Bronze Age site destroyed by beginning of middle bronze age. Lerna had large monumental building the house of tiles, which may have served as a sort of proto-palace

Question 5

1. ) 1900

2. ) 1800

Answer 5

1. ) First Palaces in Crete (Middle Bronze Age), contacts between mainland and Crete
2. ) Linear A

Question 6

1600-1200

Answer 6

Late Bronze Age:

1. ) Mycenae and other sites become power centers
2. ) small kingdoms emerge
3. ) Shaft Graves

Question 7

1490

Answer 7

Mycenaeans take over Crete