HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anaximander, Hoplite, Music Theory
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Production and trade in wine and olive oil. Linear b supplants linear a in 1450 bc. No evidence of currency, so believed to be a barter community: mycenaean civilization: Warfare, militaristic society; burials with a lot of weaponry. Time of turmoil: 1200-1000 bc, dorians, sea people . Pulled from school in order to work because his family needed the money, behind the scenes he fell in love with the work of homer. In 1850 he heads to california because of the gold rush, where he sets up a store for mining supplies. After a while he becomes wealthy and decides he wants to go to troy. He goes and begins excavating and finds a wall and he keeps digging and eventually he finds treasure (some of which he planted himself) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Another small heavily fortified city with big walls. When he digs he finds graves and gold (that he may have planted again).
