HIST 1001 : HIST 1001 Exam 2 Possible Discussion Questions And Reading Analysis
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Linear a was the first one and was discovered on the island of crete mainly in knossos. Linear b was later discovered 1000 years later by carl blegen near the pelopennese. The mycenean civilization used linear b near pylos: carl blegen was the first guy to have discovered a larger amount of any of these tablets at one time. When he traveled to knossos and found the tablets, he was excited but he could not decipher them. Michael ventris with modern techiques was able to finally decipher the tablets and understand what was going on: ventris used the same technique that was used in wwii to decipher the code. He recognized the word ti-ri-po-de and figured it out to mean tripod using the symbol. Linear b wasn"t actually written words but symbols and pictures of various objects. They were used mainly in the capital cities for economic reasons. Ventris also figured out that these civilizations were using the greek language.
