Notes 2/18/10 West Civ Proj

The Odissy is the story of Odissius and his journey home. The gods make his trip difficult after he had been at war for 10 years.

Minoan culture (3000 - 1100 B.C.)

• During the bronze age (1600 - 1050 B.C).
• King minos demanded sacrifices for the minitar that lived in a laberenth in crete
• In the middle bronze age minoan civilization was in crete and had a very stong navy
• art work there was potery jar with animal themes (sea creatures or bull heads)
• Civilization disapears

Mycenaean culture

• Mycenaean culture takes its place as dominent sea power
• Odissiuslived in mycenae
• mycenae has hevily fortified
• the lion was there primary symbol
• this cuture startes the troajan war
• this culture disapears and a dark age fallows
• now art, achetecture, literature flurishing

Geometric period (900 - 700 B.C.)

• about 900 B.C Geometric period after 200 years of darkness
• potery used as grave marker
• lasts about 200 years and startes the Archaic period

Archaic period (700 - 480 B.C.)

• grave markers were people carvings
• Greeks atatues have space between the legs, pictures nude
• when worier killed he was striped of armour and armour taken by winner
• a killed warier was a hero

Age of tyrants (650 - 510 B.C.)

• tyrants ( person in charge)
• people rise up and take controle
• 1st tyrant was in sparta and he set up laws
• Lycurgus was the name of the 1st great tyrants
• sparta and athens were most powerfull city
• every summer greek city went to war lead by hoplite worriers
• these worier were the best in the world
• and the hopolite armies of Sparta were the best and strongest woriers in greece
• spartans were trained from birth to fight
• these armies were bought as mercinaries

Persian wars (500 - 479 B.C.)

• persian were best army in the world at the time
• they were an empire
• persian attack and conquer the colonies
• if athens is lost then Greece is lost
• spartans go to thermopylae to hold off persians so Athens could evacuate
• for 3 days Spartans and allies (7000) blocked path
• they fought to the last man and athens was evacuated
• persians were slowed but they won
• persians destroy athens
• battle of selamis was the most imortant victory in the battles for Greece