Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Minos, Paleolithic, Knossos

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

The hellenistic age primary source: anything from the ancient world ie. pottery, clothing, tools, jewelry secondary source: modern day work done to interpret and analyze primary sources ie. books, articles, essays. The stone age: paleolithic era (500,000-10,000 bc, mesolithic era (10,000-7000 bc, neolithic era (7000-3000 bc) Agricultural revolution: bronze age (3000-1200 bc) ***************** not a part of the stone age hunter/gatherers in the stone age vs farmers in the bronze age. The most important thing that you can learn about a society is through the tools that they were using. The tools that a society has defines who it is. On crete, new evidence of very ancient mariners. Mainlanders came to crete very early from europe (during the paleolithic era. The greek myth of crete: minos, knossos, thalassocracy influenced the people on mainland greece. King minos dominated the sea around him through the sea from knossos.