HIST 2850 Midterm: Ancient Greece Textbook Chapters and Lecture Notes
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King minos was said to be the son of zeus and europa; zeus abducted her in the form of a bull, took her from phoenicia and ran with her into the sea to the island of crete. As punishment, poseidon makes pasiphae, minos" wife, fall in love with the prized white bull pasiphae gets pregnant with the bull and gives birth to the. The minotaur was imprisoned in the labrynth because he was a monstrous beast. Textbook chapter 1: early greece and the bronze age page #13-40: Greece in the stone ages: humans have lived in greece for at least 40,000 years, since the middle paleolithic (old. Civilization of the near east: the near east had already progressed to that higher level of organization of the natural and social environment termed civilization the aegean civilizations of crete and mainland. Greece owed their rise in the second millennium to their close contact with the palace kingdoms of the east.