[HIST 2850] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (34 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2850
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Week: jan. 12: early greece and the bronze age. For this history of early greece and the bronze age started 35,000 1100. Archaeology relied on this evidence because there were no written records until the 8th century bc. Herodotus is the called the father of history . Franch di cave is the beginning of greek history. Caves were important symbols to the greeks. Neolithic revolution ca 10,000 7,000 bc. Domestication of plants the neolithic revolution brought this about and the raising of domesticated animals. Hierarchy with the neolithic lifestyle hierarchy brought about classes. Athens greeks live in communities and settlements. Athens is one of the oldest settle sites. Autochthonus self of the ground believed that they have been there so long so they emerged from the ground. The athenians believed that they have always been in greece!!! *** based on this belief they saw themselves as ethnically different from others, chiefly the spartans (migrants)