Western Civilization - Blog Post #11 - Classical Greece

February 10th, 2020

Classical Greece

Book Notes

  • After 1500 B.C. - Mycenaeans met Minoan civilization either through trade or war
  • Mycenaeans saw the value of Seatrade through contact with the Minoans
  • The Mycenaeans sailed through the Eastern Mediterranean Sea making stops at Aegon islands, coastal towns in Anatolia, and ports in Syria, Egypt, Italy, and Crete
  • Mycenaeans adopted the Minoan writing system and decorated vases with Minoan designs
  • Western civilization has roots in these 2 early civilizations
  • 1200's B.C. - Mycenaeans fought a 10-year war with Troy
  • Troy was an independent trading city in Anatolia
  • Historians thought the Trojan War was fictional, but excavations in Northwestern Turkey in the 1870s by German Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann proved them wrong
  • After the Trojan War, the Mycenaean civilization collapsed
  • c. 1200 B.C. - sea raiders attacked and burned many Mycenaean cities
  • The Dorians moved into the Mycenaeans place
  • They spoke Greek and had many distant relatives from the Bronze Age Greece
  • The Dorians were less advanced, so their economy collapsed and their trade came to a standstill after their new arrival
  • Greeks lost the art of writing during the Dorian Age
  • 1150-750 B.C. - no written records 
  • The Trojan War was a backdrop for Homer's great epic poems in the Iliad
  • Homer and Hesiod are main sources of many Greek Mythology stories
  • Myths explained the mystery of nature, human passions, and changing seasons
  • Greek gods attributed human qualities, but they were immortal

Section 1 Assessment

  1. The sea allowed the Greeks to transport and travel easily 

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