HIST 1001 : Test 2 Notes
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The early greeks: discovery of minoan and mycenaean civilization. Time of turmoil: 1200-1000 bc, dorians, sea people lots of evidence for attacks by these people. Archaic greece: greek dark ages, 1000-750 bc, complicated society collapses, no writing, less land being farmed, population decrease. Archaic age, 750-550 bc: characteristics, poets and pre-socrates. Greek colonization: all of colonies are around water, trade is happening by water. Birth of the polls- politics: begins to emerge to archaic age. Persians: the first classical empire: cyrus the great (550-530 bc)- conquered medes- founder of the. Ahura mazda- god of light- good god. Araman- god of darkness bad god. Peoples right to choose who they follow: taught there was a day of judgment, judged by the quality of your life choices. If you do good- go to a good place, do bad- go to dark place: ionian revolt, everyone was okay with paying taxes except. Aristagorus- tyrant of meletus: conquer sardis- capital city.
