[Classical Studies 1000] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (95 pages long)

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

Gold, silver, bronze, and pottery (survives best over the years and gold is the most reliable when setting up a chronology) How chronology ( the arrangement of events and dates in order of occurrence) is established. Absolute dates (helps to avoid dates that are not relative, cause vs effect: written sources. Given emphasis over material source typically since it displays more information. Particularly biased (from political views, their life in the times, always from the wealthy"s point of view since they could afford to purchase materials/had time to write works on literature, all written by males, etc. ) Very few written by a lower class person/woman. Literature (usually on papyrus) *is damaged/wears away easily. Funeral markers, laws, inscriptions (usually on stone and metal) *** most historians tend to be materialistic rather than idealistic. The greek myth of crete: minos, knossos, thalassocracy: believed this king minos had a palace at knossos, he ruled crete through thalassocracy (greece and islands near.