CLAS 203 Lecture 2: CLAS 203 Lecture 2
12 Jul 2016
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Class 2: historical overview: the greek world (1200 bce - 30 bce) Lecture plan: early greece (the dark ages and the archaic period) ca. Greek world vs greece- professor uses greek world because in antiquity, Greece took up much more land than modern day greece does today. Greece was not a very rich country in terms of land resources, every land piece was contested: 2600-1400 bce. : one of the earliest greek civilizations was on the island of crete, dis- covered in 1900s by a british private adventurer . There was no capital city in this civilization on this island, each palace was its own entity. We don"t know much about the minoans because their script was not ever deci- phered, scholars have to draw conclusions from art. Scholars perceived them to be a peaceful civilization. Women had a lot more liberty than in many other civilizations at that time.
