Beginnings of Greek Civilization/Dark Age (2000-750)

Question 1

Aegean Civ

Answer 1

Greek civilizations surround Aegean–connector, expands to find good land–Italy is Magna Graecia

Question 2

Minoan

Answer 2

fl 2000-1500. Linear A, Crete, trade increased, palaces like Knossos

Question 3

Mycenean

Answer 3

fl 1400-1200. Mycenae (Pelopennesus). based off minoans. Linear B. tablets found at Pylos, a fortress on coast of Pelopennesian.

Question 4

Dark Age

Answer 4

1100-750. 1200 people migraet, bronze age ends, no written records. Pylos destroyed 1200 bc, Linear B forgotten.

Question 5

Homer

Answer 5

700s, wrote about stuff before dark ages.
Iliad–quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilles during siege of Troy
Odyssey–Odysseus on way home from Trojan War
unreliable stories.

Question 6

Heinrich Schliemann

Answer 6

how much truth to Iliad and Odyssey? Excavated Mycenae and Troy (found in 1871). There is some truth–Troy is on Hellespont, sacked in 1250. written because it was last glory of Mycenaeans before dark ages

Question 7

Hesiod, the farmer poet

Answer 7

talking about present Greece–what Greeks think and work Theogeny

Question 8

Sir Arthur Evans

Answer 8

looking for Minotaur Labyrinth, finds similar structure at Knossos (Minoan). finds art, rebuilds in cement. Probably some truth to minotaur story. Discovered linear a and b