HIST 1001 : History Test 2
Document Summary
Ancient greek civilization: discovery of new civilizations, homer and schliemann, homer- poet, famous for the odyssey and iliad, iliad- tells the story of trojan war, heinrich schliemann- German who came from mid class family but father was alcoholic so couldn"t afford school. He loved to study greek and ancient greece and. Homer travels to california in 1849 and becomes millionaire by selling supplies to people searching for gold. Has dream to find city of troy. Begins digging and finds huge walls and evidence of a small city destroyed by fire finds lots of gold. Might have lied about a few things with the discovery: troy, mycenae- Find gold death mask (had found these in egypt: sir arthur evans, knossos, mycenaean, minoan, minoan civilization- Production and trade of wine and olive oil. Linear b supplants linear a in 1450 bc. Bulls and bull dancing: mycenaean civilization. Use of linear b- clearly adapting and changing.
