CLS-1500 Intro to Greek & Roman Culture

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Bronze Age

    Minoan & Mycenaeans
  • 2500 BCE

    (Cretans) Minoan Society

    Linear A Tablets= Not Greek
    Palace Based Society= centralized administration consolidates and redistributes wealth and food
  • 2000 BCE

    1st Wave Mycenean (Greek) Society

    Coexisted w/ Minoans
    Linear B Tablets= Early Greek
    Palace Based Warrior Culture
  • 1600 BCE

    2nd Wave Mycenean (Greek) Society

    1600 BC Shaft graves found
    Warrior Culture
    Palace Based
  • 1200 BCE

    Collapse of Mycenean Culture

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE

    Dark Ages

    Marks the end of Bronze Age
    Collapse of Palace Based Society
    Spoken Language, The Gods, and Megaron stay the same through this period
  • 800 BCE

    Homer

    Homeric Traits of a Good Leader/King=Good Warrior & Persuasive Speaker
    Used Epic Poetry in Hexameter meter