ARCH 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mycenaean Greece, Aegean Civilizations, Chalcolithic
25 Feb 2017
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Chalcolithic or copper age: transition from neolithic to bronze age, emergence and length of period varies region to region, emergence of metallurgy (metal working) Significance of uruk: shift from small, agricultural villages to a larger urban centre. Influenced surrounding communities through trade networks: emergence of writing. Invention of writing: development of new technologies. Bronze age in the near east: ~3750 3600 bce at the earliest to ~300 bce at the latest, continued to develop social structure and technologies. The sumerians: ~2900 bc, writing shifts from pictographs to more simplified and abstract symbols, emergence of city-states. Akkadian (3rd millennium bce: world"s first empire, sargon (~2334 2279 bce, capital of akkad not been located archaeologically, conquest of sumer cities, collapse (2200 bce) Uncertainty in the middle bronze age: hierarchical societies (2000 1700 bce, conflict, destruction. Mycenaean greece: ~1600 1100 bce, replaced minoan crete as regional power, conquest. Mycenae: ~1600 1100 bce, major centre of greek civilization, military stronghold.
