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The Aegean
- Bronze Age societies 3000 BC
*- Trade
- wine, oil, textiles ceramics
- gold, silver, copper and tin on some islands
Mainland Greece
*- Clear evidence of social complexity in the Peloponnese Peninsula and the Cycladic Islands
- the House of Tiles
*- mud brick building, enclosed walls, circular towers
- terracotta roof
Franchthi Cave, Greece
- occupied by hunter gatherers from the end of the Ice Age
- earliest evidence of farming Europe
- fish for tuna near Melos
*- domestication introduced from Turkey SW Asia
- Obsidian
- boats
Chalcolithic
- Copper Age
- end of neolithic
Aegean Bronze Age Civilizations
- The Minoans
- The Mycenaeans
- influenced each other
Minoan
- rulers ruled from palaces
- not fortified
- Crete (protected by ships)
- core was a palace
Mycenaeans
*- hilltop fortresses or citadels interconnected by roads
- rulers ruled, died and were buried in citadels (warrior kings)
- core was a palace
, The Aegean Early Bronze Age
- period prior to the construction of Minoan palaces
- early Minoan
- dagger with a handle
- produce copper alloys
- import material
- start to see individuals able to afford more expensive things
- Emerging elite
- communal burials (circular stone-built tholos tombs)
- built by families
- objects placed in tombs varied
Crete
- Mountains
- narrow coastal plains
- central location for trade
Minoan Trade
- seafaring people
- Ancient Egypt and Near East
Knossos
- large town during the Neolithic
- fertile plain
- lots of settlements
- possibly large kingdoms
Early Bronze Age settlements
On Crete
- small villages
Knossos, Phaistos, and Mallia
- houses with open central courts
Pre-palace
- palace based structures
All places had trade contact with the Near East and Egypt
- cylinder seals, faience, scarabs
House of Tiles
- sealings were found at this site
- tiles
- personal signatures
Cyclades Early Bronze Age
UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+
The Aegean
- Bronze Age societies 3000 BC
*- Trade
- wine, oil, textiles ceramics
- gold, silver, copper and tin on some islands
Mainland Greece
*- Clear evidence of social complexity in the Peloponnese Peninsula and the Cycladic Islands
- the House of Tiles
*- mud brick building, enclosed walls, circular towers
- terracotta roof
Franchthi Cave, Greece
- occupied by hunter gatherers from the end of the Ice Age
- earliest evidence of farming Europe
- fish for tuna near Melos
*- domestication introduced from Turkey SW Asia
- Obsidian
- boats
Chalcolithic
- Copper Age
- end of neolithic
Aegean Bronze Age Civilizations
- The Minoans
- The Mycenaeans
- influenced each other
Minoan
- rulers ruled from palaces
- not fortified
- Crete (protected by ships)
- core was a palace
Mycenaeans
*- hilltop fortresses or citadels interconnected by roads
- rulers ruled, died and were buried in citadels (warrior kings)
- core was a palace
, The Aegean Early Bronze Age
- period prior to the construction of Minoan palaces
- early Minoan
- dagger with a handle
- produce copper alloys
- import material
- start to see individuals able to afford more expensive things
- Emerging elite
- communal burials (circular stone-built tholos tombs)
- built by families
- objects placed in tombs varied
Crete
- Mountains
- narrow coastal plains
- central location for trade
Minoan Trade
- seafaring people
- Ancient Egypt and Near East
Knossos
- large town during the Neolithic
- fertile plain
- lots of settlements
- possibly large kingdoms
Early Bronze Age settlements
On Crete
- small villages
Knossos, Phaistos, and Mallia
- houses with open central courts
Pre-palace
- palace based structures
All places had trade contact with the Near East and Egypt
- cylinder seals, faience, scarabs
House of Tiles
- sealings were found at this site
- tiles
- personal signatures
Cyclades Early Bronze Age
