MMW 11 Final: Final Exam: Study Guide Greece
5 Dec 2016
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1600 minoan trading empire, centered in crete. 1400 mycenaeans, centered in peloponnese, conquer minoans; sack of knossos. 1200 trojan war, sudden collapse of mycenaean world. 800 archaic age (= greek renaissance) begins, homer"s iliad is made. 508 cleisthenes expands athenian assembly invents democracy. 480 themistocles saves athens from persians, banished later the same year. 431-404 athens-sparta war (peloponnesian war), sparta wins. A beginner"s guide to the iliad & the trojan war: introduction. Iliad is an epic written in verse by homer. Some say homer was a committee, a woman mostly regard him as illiterate and blind and living in western coast of turkey. Major historical source for age of homer (800s) and trojan war (1200s) When troy fell, most other large settlements in region fell as well. Neither greece nor troy were a single unified state. Trojan war takes place around 1200 bc. Spartan king tyrandeus has a wife named leda who is impregnated by zeus disguised as a swan.
