HST 347- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
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Protopalatial crete (1950-1700 bc) first palaces begun in ca. 1950 they are the "characteristic social and political unit" of. Minoan crete: architecturally complex, multi-functional buildings w/ rooms arranged around large rectangular central court usu. on approx. Armenia: good horses, good chariot wood + linguistic evidence matches what we would. Pylos important mycenean center excavated by c. blegen in 1939 pre-palace remains include tholos tombs, which go out of use about the time that main mycenaean remains are of a "palace" built c. 1425, the so-called palace of nestor. 89 signs syllabic + ideograms unwieldy script "tripod" Greece none of palace centers of lj survived very far into c12 bce by then almost all the great destructions concentrate on places where there were palaces or comparable large. Athens: cyclopean fortifications constructed around palace on acropolis in. Mycenae: fortifications @ mycenae strengthened, and an underground water tablets at pylos record raiders, calls for extreme measures, system of watchers.
