CLA389H1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
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Inhabited since 4000bce, greeks arrived in 1600bce (first evidence of mycenaeans) Mycenaean palace complexes in places such as pylos, thebes, knossos, etc. They share similar customs and architecture with each other and with athens. Athenians claimed to be autochthonous from the earth, came from the land, and there forever, preceded by only the gods. Agora = (cid:862)asse(cid:373)(cid:271)ly(cid:863) pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) spa(cid:272)e ofte(cid:374) later surrou(cid:374)ded (cid:271)y pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) (cid:271)uildi(cid:374)gs a(cid:374)d te(cid:373)ples. Original structure of athens was focussed around an acropolis a hill jutting out from the plain that is easily defendable, by a style of wall. The upper city was a fortified citadel, with ppl initially living inside it. After the pop increased ppl moved to the plain around it, and surrounded the plains with a wall. [image] mycenaean athenian acropolis 1200bce with cyclopean wall. [image] lion gate: cyclopean masonry ppl thought it looked like cyclops had built them 13thc.
