[HPS210H1] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (51 pages long)
29 Nov 2016
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The classical period (the more important, worth noting) Source of the most of the themes in western culture, definitive, delineate the west, can trace the major things that happen (art & music) No overarching government, large palaces ruling over a given region. Home to warrior elite, stratified, socially hierarchical, stable for 500 years, this structure brought stability. Literate culture, knew how to read and write, had a distinct kind of alphabet. The others are linguistic mysteries, used down the linear a (don"t know how to read this, this was used before linear b) Only used for running the empire, administrative purpose, a small class of people keeping these records. First historical mystery, don"t know what happened to these people, there"s not a lot of evidence of a raid or city burnt to ground, the civilization , a diminish in the power of the government. Bronze age collapse, just couldn"t keep their affairs together, just fell apart.
