Lec5 - Lecture notes 5 PDF

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This is the fifth lecture of the course...

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lec5

Monday, May 3, y

The Bronze Age Three Key Concepts

- early peoples developed elaborate civilizations, there was nothing left behind that was able to be read or studied, and no one to explain it

- everything he learned was through oral tradition - were two important ones, Minoans and the Myceneans Neolithic period

- Stone age - from hunter/gatherer to farmers and agriculture - start to see things that we see in other cultures The Early and Middle Bronze Age

- growth in communities and population, tech allowed more food and created specialization

- Minoans • centered in Crete, widespread engagement with other communities • kings with small number of family, priests and religion, the farmers and the rest

• Palace of Knosses - best preserved and known ruins from this time • religious systems, akin to things in the east rather than others similar communities

• wrote in a language we cant understand, Linear A and a Phaistos Disc

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lec5

Monday, May 3, y

The Late Bronze Age

- Myceneans • like the first greeks, write and speak in a proto greek language • Palace system • first depiction of a war chariot, early evidence of battle formation, into war

• left us a written record, exchanges in the palace or store inventories The Collapse

- left with words and pictograms and no other information - large scale civilizations were taken down by something, no one knows, just devastating

- everything was abandoned, and work toward a common goal just disappeared

- what were the ancients thinking when they lived in their times • not much left of so much ruins, hard to imagine how massive everything was

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