The mycenaeans

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The mycenaeans

• Perry kroh
• Lt130
• Spring 2006

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Names you know

• Perseus herakles

• jason achilles

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Beginnings

• isolated hilltop fortresses
• Specialized advances
• Unique, warfare, architecture and artistic style
  for period
• United under perseus c1400bc

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expansion

• First expansion was to crete, absorbed minoan
  civilization
• Conquered islands of the aegean
• Spread to asia Minor
• height of empire Trojan war 1184BC
• Debates about areas in italy, spain, malta cyprus
  and black sea region

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Trojan war

• Date 1184bc
• Started over Kidnapping of hellene
• Believed to be a myth for ages
• Found by heinrich schliemann in 1868

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Wonderous art
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End times

• From ProjectSX Dartmouth College
• Lesson 28 The Collapse of Mycenaean Palatial
  Civilization and the Coming of the Dorians
• INTRODUCTION
• SIGNS OF TROUBLE WITHIN MYCENAEAN GREECE DURING
  THE LH IIIB PERIOD
• Significant Destructions
• Significant Constructions
• Evidence from the Linear B Tablets
• THE HORIZON OF DESTRUCTIONS AND ABANDONMENTS AT
  THE END OF THE LH IIIB PERIOD AND THE VERY
  BEGINNING OF THE LH IIIC PHASE
• The Argolid and Corinthia
• Boeotia
• Phocis
• Laconia
• Messenia
• Achaea
• Ionian Islands
• Attica
• Cyprus
• Conclusions
• A SELECTION OF THEORIES AS TO THE CAUSE(S) OF
  THE MYCENAEAN PALATIAL COLLAPSE

• Hard to determine precise cause of
  civilizations demise due to
• Archaeological record altered by Schliemann
• linear a script not no deciphered yet
• Much of area rebuilt during subsequent eras
• Primary theories are civil war, single or
  multiple invasions

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Bibliography

• Projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age
• WWW.sikyon.com
• www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean
• Harpy.uccs.edu/grrece/mycenae
• Homepage.mac.com/cparada/gml/
• Brad.fan-sites.org
• www.utexas.edu