HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phoenician Alphabet, Mycenaean Greece, Trojan War

• School: Ball State University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 150
• Professor: scottparkinson

Document Summary

Spoke indo-euro language: doric, ionic, aeolic. Foundation for homer (trojan war epics: writes about stories during the mycenaean period (the iliad, the odyssey) Both: secondary if referring to when written and when he was alive, primary if referring to theatre at that time. 1100-750 move into dark ages (time of decline) One of the only things still with us from this time. Polis: (city-state) a community of citizens in which all functions (politics, economy, social structure) are all focused on a common goal. Fought 8x8 (64 men in one formation: one phalanx /units. Greeks scatter during dark ages, forming colonies. Sparta: year 7 = military training (13 yrs of military school, 20 = join military. Can marry but must stay in barracks: 30 = could live at home, 60 = could retire. Athens: 700 bc: rival to sparta, started by aristocrats, used human collateral for loans. A: democracy started in athens: more freedoms.