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Greek Beginnings

Greek Beginnings. Minoans and Mycenaeans. A remarkable environment. Ancient Greece. Minoan Civilization. Mycenaean Civilization. Minoan civilization. Minoans. c. 6000 BCE: the first farmers settle Crete c. 2000 BCE: the first palaces appear

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Greek Beginnings

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  1. Greek Beginnings Minoans and Mycenaeans

  2. A remarkable environment

  3. Ancient Greece Minoan Civilization Mycenaean Civilization

  4. Minoan civilization

  5. Minoans • c. 6000 BCE: the first farmers settle Crete • c. 2000 BCE: the first palaces appear • c. 1700 BCE: a great earthquake destroys Minoan palace complexes • later rebuilt • c. 1600 BCE: the first Mycenaeans reach Crete • c. 1450 BCE: a volcanic eruption on Thera generates a great tidal wave • Knossos and other palaces destroyed • c. 1100 BCE: the end of Minoan civilization

  6. Knossos

  7. Knossos (cont.) • Right: queen’s room • Below: throne room

  8. Remarkable art • Minoan • Wall frescoes (below) • Seals (right)

  9. Minoan art (cont.) • How sensitive these images are in comparison to those of other early civilizations

  10. Let the games begin…. • “bull-leaping” • compare: the first Olympic Games • 776 BCE

  11. Mycenaean civilization

  12. Mycenaeans • c. 1600-1100 BCE: dominate mainland Greece • c. 1450 BCE: become rulers of Crete • c. 1250 BCE: the traditional date of the fall of Troy • c. 1200 BCE: Mycenaean culture begins to decline • cities abandoned • c. 1100-800 BCE: the Greek “Dark Age” • Homer and Hesiod

  13. A martial tradition • Right: Theseus and the Minotaur • Below: the Trojan Horse

  14. The martial arts • Right: Mycenaean arms and armor • Below: the lion hunt

  15. Fortifications • Right: the Lion Gate • Below: the citadel at Mycenae

  16. c Mycenaean art • Top right: history’s most famous mask

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