MMW 11 Lecture 28: Lecture 28 Notes - Part 1

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: David Jordan

Document Summary

1400 mycenaeans from peloponnese conquer minoans. 1200 trojan war, mycenaean society, hittite empire, and other small levantine cities collapse, Iron displaces bronze, population collapses, beginning of dark age. 800 ar(cid:272)hai(cid:272) age (cid:894)= greek re(cid:374)aissa(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:895) (cid:271)egi(cid:374)s, ho(cid:373)er"s iliad, beginning to recover from dark. ~2000 indo-european greek speakers in greek. 1600 1200 mycenaean age: greece controlled by palaces in mycenae, pylos, tiryns, and thebes. Engaged in giving money to king king then redistributed money everywhere else: minoans operating large sea empire around crete (south of hand) Palace of knossos was undefended: linear a script used during this time. Still remains undeciphered: linear b used by mycenaeans. No literature or history, just economic records. 1400 mycenaeans conquer minoans: engaged in lots of trade. Farming goods were subject to bad growing seasons were a central trading component. Population increase grows more dependent on trade cause a. 1200 destruction (reduction) of mycenaean palaces: collapse may be due to: collapse.