HIST 1001 : Test 2
Document Summary
Spoke indo european instead of simetic like the rest of the region. First of indo european to create a complex civilization. He learned ancient greek to read the illiad. 1849 he goes to california and makes a shop for the miners. He tries to find the city of troy. He digs a pit and finds a wall. Was much earlier than any other greek civilization. No one believes him so he goes out to find the cities mentioned in the illiad. Schliemann proved that portions of the illiad were true. Sir arthur evans finds a huge palace on the island of crete. He finds a clay tablet with writing that no one had seen before. Alice kober was trying to decifer the minoan languge. Michael ventris takes up alice kobers translation work. He was inspired by the code braking done in ww2. Linear b is an early form of greek. Production and trade of wine and olive oil.
