HIST 1001 : HIST Exam 2 Notes
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9/28/2015 4:37:00 pm: discovery of new civilizations, homer and schliemann, minoan civilization, mycenaean civilization. Linear b supplants linear a in 1450 bc. Michael ventris ti-ri-po-de learned that its greek. The oracle of delphi: considered the center of the universe (bellybutton, magical space where gods could speak to people. The olympic games: 776 bc* not sure correct date, not primarily athletic, festival to the god zeus (most impt, men only competing, became a universal greek way of keeping up with passing of time. Increase in population: slow economic revival, wine & olive oil, coinage minted out of gold & silver, each city state had its own symbol on coin, coins are easy to transport; don"t have to rely on bartering. Poets of archaic greece: sappho c. 600 bc, female poet writing short lyrical poems, very little of her poetry survived, frequently wrote about love; all types, wrote about men & women as well as women & women romantically.
