CLAS 1051 Lecture 5: The End of the Bronze Age

• School: CU-Boulder
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 1051
• Professor: Peter Hunt

Document Summary

Note: these are notes i hand wrote and transferred into a digital format. The end of the bronze age: widespread destruction, riding horses came after chariot usage, during a 50 year period around 1200 bc b. i. Looks like there year is made up of two six month periods b. ii. Winds from the north is were the fire was b. ii. 1. b. ii. 2. Burnt down in the middle of summer b. iii. Two pharaohs talking about the sea people b. iv. Catastrophe = burning of palaces: around the aegean c. i. Many other greek sites: eastern mediterranean and inland d. i. Requisition of temple bronze for spear and arrow points. Results in greece: settlement changes and population loss, decline in traded relations, no markers of a new culture c. i. There we know conquerors would have very obvious markers: basileus chief becomes king building things for you d. i.