Early Greece and Bronze Age

When were the Olympic games founded

776, Olympia Greece

What did the Paleolithic Period entail?

hunter gatherers in caves near the coast; 12k to 8k environmental changes led to physical land changes; high degree of child death and malaria

Franchthi Cave

significant archeological site in Greece for people resided from 20,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE- longest continuous occupied area in Greece!

Time hunter-gathers occupied

8,000 BCE

Paleolithic

30,000 to 10,000 BCE

Mesolithic

10,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE

Neolithic

New Stone Age; 7,000 to 3,000 BCE

Time when people started to produce their own food INSTEAD of collecting it

New Stone Age; 7,000 to 3,000 BCE

Fertile crescent

inhabitants of Greece began to domesticate quickly because they were able to produce their own food; wheat, barely, peas, lentils, chickpeas, fava beans

Time of the first piece of writing in Greece

8th century BCE; Greece was behind other civilizations in this way

Early Greek geography

very mountainous; only 30% cultivated land; Mediterranean climate

Mediterranean Triad

grain, olives, and grapes

Why they were settled on the coast in Early Greece?

made trading/modes of communication easier

Trade happening in Early Greece

copper and tin, culture

What sea tied the Greeks to the Near East?

Aegean Sea

Dimini Villages

First signs of Greek urbanization; large building with central hall; permanent locations; houses made of dried mud bricks over stone foundations

Inscription that gives us the first record of Greek history

Parian marble

First urban centers are found in the…

Near East

Neolithic Art

new skill set = color; statues and figures, not very intricate

Time of Early and Middle Bronze Age

3,000 to 1,600 BCE

How to make bronze

add 10% of tin to copper

Site of Lerna

founded 6th millennium; House of Tiles (two stories and a cooridor); destroyed by the end of 2,250 BCE

Importance of Proto-Indo Europeans

interconnectedness of languages

Corridor houses

signs of sociopolitical hierarchy; central court

Horses were a symbol of…

status

Trade with outside world of…

Melos