HIST 1001 : TEST 2
Document Summary
Discovery of new civilizations: homer: poet, author of the iliiad and the odyssey, illiad: greece vs troy. Caballo de troya: heinrich schliemann: german who came from middle class family. He decides to leave germany to russia, but he made his way to california for the gold rush to sell pickaxes, booze, shovels. Now with all of his money, he sets off to greece to find "troy"" and finds it. Mycenaean all over the aegean, which tells us they had sea ferrys. Ended in 1100 bc: sir arthur evans: english and professor at oxford u. after seeing that heinrich was finding stuff, he sets off to crete and finds the minoan civilization. Inside, there were fragments of wall paintings which showed images of bulls everywhere. He then found clay tables filled with writing (no one has ever seen before) he noticed that there were 2 languages going on on the tablets (linear a,
