HIST 1001 : Test 2
Document Summary
Egypt collapses as well: the collapses take place in the same time period as the book of. Newgrange and stonehenge: ritual sites found in ireland and england. Minoan and mycenaean civilizations: wine and olive oil, crete, linear a, linear b, carl blegen, finds tablets of only linear b, michael ventris, alice kober. Poets of archaic greece: sappho, hesiod, theogony, work and days, homer, iliad & odyssey, arete. Helots: unfree people who are owned by sparta: 90% enslaved; 10% free, lycurgus: created military system to keep helots in line. Sparta had 2 kings: one who stayed in sparta and one in the field. Illegitimately took over government: made government projects, gave money to the people. 657 b. c. - his death: tyranny happens until his grandson takes, athens: over, the big one , acropolis, agora, agora: center square where all of life happened, solon: Makes selling/owning an athenian slave illegal: boule. Makes athens ultimate supplier of wine and olive oil.
