[HIST 150] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (57 pages long!)

• School: Ball State University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 150
• Professor: Dr Parkinson

Document Summary

Early greece (c. 1600 - 1100 bc) (cid:449)as destroyed do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hy though. Mycenaean peoples speak greek (an indo-european language) Setting for greek mythology and trojan war (c. 1194 1184 bc) epics of homer the iliad. They were the first true greek civilization that we know of. The dark ages (c. 1200 - 800 bc) there is a decline in cultural output (no art, architecture, people are trying to survive. ) because of lack of food. First olympic games (776 bc) good thing that came out of the dark ages. New alphabet adopted from phoenicians (group of trades people from the middle east and were traders and brought their alphabet with them and the greek took it and changed it) 850 farming and food starts to come back pulling the greeks out of the dark ages beginning a new period. City-states with their polis (plural = poleis) protected by hoplites.