HIST 2850 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 (Week 1)
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Chapter 1: early greece and the bronze age. The mycenaean civilization (around 1600-1400 bc) was associated with pioneering archaeological work by heinrich schliemann and the minoans belonged to arthur evans. People lived in greece for at least 40,000 years, since the middle paleolithic (old stone) age early inhabitants lived by hunting and gathering of wild plants, using finely crafted tools and weapons of stone, wood, and bone. Early in the neolithic (new stone) age (c. 7000 bc), they began to cultivate domesticated plants; to use domesticated animals, which had been introduced from the near east; and to weave cloth on a loom. Agriculture allowed people to settle down permanently small farming villages sprang up made of one- room, mud-brick houses similar to those of the near east; under the favorable conditions of the warm. New-stone age, villages grew larger and new village communities were formed. Greece in the early and middle bronze ages (c. 3000 1600 bc)