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Introduction-The Warrior (The Way They Came )-(How To Fight) page 9-18

Introduction-The Warrior (The Way They Came )-(How To Fight) page 9-18. By Anthony James Richardson Margret Elizabeth Gegler. Table of Contents. Introduction Summary Quotes Themes. Introduction. History must be learned piece by piece.

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Introduction-The Warrior (The Way They Came )-(How To Fight) page 9-18

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  1. Introduction-The Warrior(The Way They Came)-(How To Fight)page 9-18 By Anthony James Richardson Margret Elizabeth Gegler

  2. Table of Contents • Introduction • Summary • Quotes • Themes

  3. Introduction • History must be learned piece by piece. • In order to understand history you must change it. • For people of our time to comprehend history it must be put in a perspective that can be understood.

  4. Summary (part 1) • Greeks and Greece • Origins are a Mystery. • Help our understanding of prehistoric history. • Mounted warriors • Origins had came from Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas. • They moved to the inlets of the Aegean Sea which the became their permanent home. • The language they spoke was a cat’s cradle of Indo-European roots.

  5. Summary (part 2) • Sir Arthur Evans • Cnossos in north-central Crete English Archaeologist • Found the long lost capital of a civilization he called Minoan after King Minos

  6. Summary (part 3) • Minoans • Rudiments of written language called Linear A. • The writing is a pictographic and syllabic form just like the Mesopotamians. • Flourished from 2000 to 1400 B.C. at which point they were destroyed because of a overflowing volcano on the isle of Thera (modern day Santorini).

  7. Summary (part 4) • Heinrich Schliemann • In 1900s discovery of the Minoans led to more discoveries. • 1870s Schliemann German businessman discovered the remains of ancient Troy. • Also discovered treasure declare as “the treasure of Priam” king of the Trojans. • Thought he found the graves of Agamemnon soldiers and the king himself

  8. Summary (part 5) • Agamemnon • Leader of Greek force at Troy • Upon his return from war he was slain by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus

  9. Summary (part 6) • Mycenaean • The language they spoke was an early form of Greek called Linear B. • A pictographic-syllabic set of markings. • Full of Greek roots and proper names. • Lost to the Mycenaean's after tenth century B.C. in the Dark Age of Greece.

  10. Summary (part 7) • Olympians • Known as gods and goddesses • Zeus • Live on top of Mount Olympus • Over through the Titians • Goddesses being prone to jealousy helped start the Trojan war-It began just like Eve’s temptation in Eden with an apple • Mount Olympus • Highest Mountain • Titians • Elder Gods • Formed by Father Heaven and Mother Earth

  11. Summary (part 8) • Zeus • Son of Titian Cronus. • Raped women – Mortal and Immortal. • Complicating family relations on Olympus. • His sister and wife was Hera.

  12. Quotes • “The earth that feeds us all” –Homer • “I have looked upon the face of Agamemnon” –Schliemann • “Language mixing with language side-by-side” Homer

  13. Themes • History must be learned in pieces

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