HIST 1001 : HIST Test2
Document Summary
People in europe developed animal domestication, writing (emerges in greece), metallurgy, etc. independently of mesopotamia. Had timber forests to build shit out of. Lived in small villages rather than cities because there was steady rainfall and large numbers of people weren"t necessary (didn"t have to built canals). Troy: wall = prevalent warfare, worried about attack. Clean burning and abundant: were like liquid gold, could transport over long distances (by boat, minoan wealth came from wine and olive oil. Exported to egypt and even mesopotamia: when we have trade, we need writing, most clay tablets from knossos were inventories, evans realizes there are two different writing symbols are the same, but linear. B arranges them in a completely different way. Carl blegen: american archeologist worked in pylos, small, walled city, shocked to find a bunch of clay tablets in all linear b!
