HIST 1215 Lecture 6: 1215_End.Bronze.Age
Document Summary
Center of power in 13th,14th, and 15th century b. c. Greece was carved up into different city states. Homer may have been right when mycenae was at the center of greek power. Graves excavated was evidence of warrior chiefs - rulers wearing death masks. Did not have natural resources that mattered - no tin to make bronze weapons nor did they have gold. Trojan war is a dramatized and romanticized version of a resource war. Fought over natural resources for military machine, and not over a women. City was well walled, as the myths described. Heinrich shleeman - set out to find homer"s troy. Believes his wife was the reincarnation of hellen"s troy. Trojan prince, harris, seduces hellen - wife of greek king. Greek king attack troy to bring her back. Greek hide in wooden horse inside city where they infiltrate troy and destroy it. Romans tells the story that their founder was a refugee of troy.
