HIST 1001 : Terms For Test 2
Document Summary
Illiad and the odessey is what he wrote: a poem about a war that was ten years long and involved different greek cities all over, trojan war fought over helen, set in distant past. Troy: has massive walls, small city and there is evidence found that the city could have been destroyed by fire, schliemann found this. Mycenae: city that schliemann found with big wall around it, locates graves where people were buried with grave goods, death masks- golden face masks. Knossos: big city in crete, palace complex there. Mycenaean: began in 1500 bc, greek speaking people, throughout aegean, small walled cities, found by schliemann, warfare, militaristic society, trade in wine and olive oil, use of linear b, ended by 1100 bc. If you wanted to ruin a greek civilization you would burn their olive trees. Crete: where arthur evans had expedition, a culture that was obsessed with bulls, language referred to as linear a.
