Two Primary sources used to learn about the Ancient Greeks?
- Physical Remains
- Written Records
Physcial Remains?
-Buildings, Tools, Bones
Wood?
Disintegrates over time
Gold, Silver, Iron and Bronze?
Does not rust but often repurposed by melting down
-Iron corrodes
Terracotta?
-Highly durable material made from clay baked at high temperatures
-Figurines, pots and objects found in graves
Clay Pots?
-Prime material source
-Durable, not repurposed
-Cooking, bags, bottles
-Underwent style changes can be placed in chronological order
How to establish “absolute” dates?
Occurs when a datable object from an outside culture is found amid Greek Material
Where can written record be found?
-Pillars, stones, coins
-Papyrus
Subject of written records?
Treaties, law, public decrees, funerary epitaphs
Limitations of written sources?
-produced by a privileged group: urban men from the upper class
-Not objective, chose what they wanted to convey
Hellas?
Land of Greece
Largest Greek Island?
Crete
Landscape of Greece
75% mountainous
20% land ideal for farming
Few rivers
Typical Greek Diet?
Bread, Wine and Olive oil
Did not eat butter and drank little milk
Only ate meat at festivals/feasts
Economic Importance of Sheep and Goats?
Greeks supplied wool, cheese, meats and skins
Primary disunifying force throughout Greek history?
Tension between people who had lots of land and those that had little/none
Primary unifying force thorughout Greek history?
Citizen-farmers’ devotion to their farmland, die defending their “ancestral earth”
When did Greek History begin?
776 BCE, year the olympic games were to have been founded
Greece has been inhabited since..
40 000 BCE
Greek Lifestyle in the Old Stone Age?
-Nomads
-Weapons made of stone, wood and bone
Greek lifestyle in the New Stone Age?
-Domesticated animals, cultivated plants
-Agriculutral revolution due to more sophisticated stone tools
-Agriculture alows peolpe to settle down permanently
-Artisans begin creating figurines in clay and marble
Society in the Stone Age
-Egalitarian
-Families cooperated together
-Temporary leadership (person best at getting things done is in charge)
Describe the Greek Myth about King Minos?
King Minos lived in crete at the palace of Cnossus every Greek paid him tribute every year(7 girls and 7 boys). The tributes were sent into a labyrinth where a minotaur lived. One year Prince Thesus of Athens volunteered to be tribute. He fell in love with King Minos daughter. He killed the minotaur and got out of the labyrinth
What did King Minos rule by?
Thalassocracy(sea power)
