Minoans and Mycenaeans History Handout
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When was the Neolithic Age?
7000-3000 BC
When was the Bronze Age?
3000-1050 BC
When was the Dark Age?
1050-900 BC
When was the Geometric Age?
900-700 BC
When was the Minoan Pre-Palatial Age?
7000-2000 BC
When was the Minoan Palatial Age?
2000-1470 BC
When was the Minoan Post-Palatial Age?
1470-1000 BC
What were the main Minoan palace sites?
Chania, Knossos, Malia, Phalistos, and Zakros
What were the 3 functions of Minoan Palaces?
Government centres, workshops, and religious centres
What were the scripts used by the Minoans?
Linear A and Cretan Heiroglyphs
What script is on the Phaistos Disc?
An unknown one, which has not been deciphered.
When was the Mycenaean Pre-Palatial Age?
1600-1450 BC
When was the Mycenaean Palatial Age?
1450-1200 BC
When was the Mycenaean Post-Palatial Age?
1200-1000 BC
What were Mycenaean Palace Complexes like?
They were fortified places where just the elite lived, and not on the Minoan standard of art and architecture.
What were the major Mycenaean palace sites?
Mycenae, Tiryns, Pelos, and Gla.
What were tholos tombs like?
They were circular, beehive-shaped stone tombs covered with soil, expensive and so mainly constructed for the Mycenaean elite.
What is an example of a tholos tomb?
The tomb of Atreus at Mycenae.
What were shaft graves?
They were the ordinary form of tomb in Mycenae, communal and simple to build.
What is an example of a shaft grave?
Grave Circle A from Mycenae, which dates from the 16th century BC.
What was the Mycenean script?
Linear B, a pictorial script which was deciphered in the 1950s by Michael Ventris.
What was the Mycenean language?
The Myceneans spoke proto-Greek, or early Greek, and just wrote it with a different script.
When did the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations decline?
Starting in the late 13th century BC.
Why did the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations decline?
We don’t exactly know, but many reasons are hypothesized, including natural disasters, invasion, and social factors.
Who was Agamemnon?
The legendary king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks against Troy.
Who was Atreus?
The father of Agamemnon.
Who was Arthur Evans?
The excavator and restorer of Knossos.
What was a rhyton?
A Mycenaean ritual drinking vessel.
Who was Heinrich Schliemann?
The excavator of Mycenae, polyglot, loved Homer.
Who was Michael Ventris?
He was the man who deciphered and identified Linear B by assuming that the language it contained was Greek.