CLASS 40 Lecture 3: Iliad Checklist
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Iliad checklist: 2000-1100 b. c, 1600, 1400-1200, 1200, 1200-1100, 1100-750, 800-700 b. c, 750. They develop mycenaean civilization named after their chief city mycenae. This period is also referred to as the greek bronze age. Greek palace-centers (mycenae, pylos, tiryns, sparta, athens, thebes, etc. ) are established; mycenaean greeks come under the cultural influence of the. Greek mycenaeans are mercantile power in eastern mediterranean. Their writing system (linear b) is borrowed from the minoans. This war, which lasts 10 years, is called the trojan war. In the late 13th and 12th centuries, there is turmoil throughout the entire eastern mediterranean and in troy and pylos are destroyed around 1200 b. c. Mycenaean palace-centers are destroyed between 1200 and 1100 b. c. Greek dark age: massive depopulation, loss of writing, building primarily in wood. By 900 there is renewed contact with the near east and increased population. The alphabet is also adopted by the greeks from the phoenicians.
