CLAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Minoan Religion, Knossos, Minoan Civilization
21 Jan 2017
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Clas 201 janurary 5th, 2016 readings pg, 23 35. Greece in the early and middle bronze ages: bronze metallurgy came to greece and its islands around 3000 bc, to get their tin, greeks had to have been in contact with sources in. A hereditary chief and few other prominent men who administered the affairs of the town and its outlying settlements. Women derived their status from the men to whom they were related: around 2250 bc, there is evidence of severe destruction at almost all the sites throughout greece and the islands. The middle bronze age appears to have been much poorer: greek speakers first entered greece at the beginning of the middle. They spoke a language that belonged to the family of language called indo-european. The close likeliness in vocabulary and syntactical structure among ancient languages and their descendants soon led to the insight that they had all sprung from a common linguistic ancestor (later termed proto-indo-european)
