HIST 150 Lecture 5: Minoan and Mycenaean civilization
23 Feb 2017
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Look at the map, greece is a mountainous country, which is cut by various bays of the mediterranean. This exposure to the sea shaped the entire greek history from the times of the minoan civilization which according to new research was the first naval empire in aegean sea as early as the second millennium bc. The epic of trojan war inspired two non- professional archeologists, heinrich schliemann and arthur evans, to begin their excavations on the cites of two legendary cities: mycenae, a capital city of agamemnon, leader of greeks in the trojan. War, and knossos on crete, an island of legendary king minos. To begin my lecture, i"ll show you this cities using german documentary film. (clip from the film crete and mycenae : 5 min. ) What were the most distinctive features of those cities? (take a notice of an absence of the fortification on crete.
