Minoans

1. Discovery, Arthur Evans

1.1. Archaeologist

1.2. discovered a palace

1.2.1. Advance for the palaces time

1.3. reconstruction of the palace

2. No usable records

2.1. left no text and no history, nothing in their own word

3. Atlantis/Minoan Pompeii

4. Women

4.1. women wore robes that had short selves with

5. Mycenaean

5.1. Toke over after the mioans

6. Languages/writing

6.1. Unable to translate

6.2. Wrote in Linear B

6.3. Little information about the language

7. Art

7.1. Pottery

7.2. painting

7.3. Scultuple

8. Bronze Age

8.1. Metal Stage

9. Crete

9.1. Prepalatial Minoan Crete (2600-1900

9.1.1. first period of crete, Minoans were always on crete

9.1.2. Had contact with Asia, Eygpt and Syria

9.1.3. No offical landlord

9.2. Protopalatial Minoan Crete (1900-1700 BC)

9.2.1. Began with a social upheaval, mirgrations from mainland Greece

9.2.2. began to establish colonies at thera, Rodos and Kithera

9.2.3. Around 2000 BC a new poltical system came about A KING

9.2.4. First palaces were used as the center of the community

9.3. Neopalatial Crete (1700-14000

10. Religion

10.1. worshiped Goddess

10.2. Festivals

10.3. Some evidence of male gods

11. 1630 B.C.E.

11.1. Island of Thera

11.2. Volcano explosxed

11.3. the kind that occur every 10,000 yrs.

11.4. Bye bye Minoans

12. Periods

12.1. Early (c.2000-1600 B.C.E.

12.2. Middle(c 1600-1400 B.C.E)

12.3. Late (c.1400-1200 B.C.E)