CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Archaic Greece, Bronze Age
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It was named mycenaean because of its most powerful empire. At the earliest, the mycenaeanc start to distinguish themselves and start to see themselves as their own civilication at (cid:1005)7(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s. People start to (cid:271)e buried in a certain style. The civilization is influenced by factors that are happening in other parts of the civilized world. Around 1500, the population starts to do things different again. They start to build impressive monumental cenataurs, citadels and palaces. We knew this stuff was going on because people were writing about it. We do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)ow what/wh(cid:455), (cid:271)ut (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) pala(cid:272)es are destro(cid:455)ed/burned. After the attacks, mycenean spreads across landscapes that they have never been before, they spread. The culture survives the destruction of the palaces, but the administration and the records people seem to have not survived. Things start to go wrong again after 3 generations, around 1100 b. c onwards. The number of people visible in the greeek landscape starts to dwindle.
