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. Bronze Age

2.1. Metal Stage

3. Crete

3.1. Prepalatial Minoan Crete (2600-1900

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

3.1.2. Had contact with Asia, Eygpt and Syria

3.1.3. No offical landlord

3.2. Protopalatial Minoan Crete (1900-1700 BC)

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

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

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

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

3.3. Neopalatial Crete (1700-14000

4. Religion

4.1. worshiped Goddess

4.2. Festivals

4.3. Some evidence of male gods

5. No usable records

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

6. 1630 B.C.E.

6.1. Island of Thera

6.2. Volcano explosxed

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

6.4. Bye bye Minoans

7. Atlantis/Minoan Pompeii

8. Women

8.1. women wore robes that had short selves with

9. Mycenaean

9.1. Toke over after the mioans

10. Languages/writing

10.1. Unable to translate

10.2. Wrote in Linear B

10.3. Little information about the language

11. Art

11.1. Pottery

11.2. painting

11.3. Scultuple

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)