The Mycenaeans: Greeks Before Antiquity - Bronze Age Ep. 1

Mycenaean Greece is often forgotten about in history, but its cultural impact still lasts to this day. Most high school students in the United States are made to read The Iliad and the Odyssey. Two books focussed on the mythical Trojian war. Some of the most notable and famous cities in history, Athens, Sparta, and Thebes, all set their foundations in the Bronze Age World.
Main Sources:
IMMERWAHR, SARA A. â MYCENAEAN TRADE AND COLONIZATION.â Archaeology, vol. 13, no. 1, 1960, pp. 4â 13. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41663729. Accessed 28 Aug. 2020.
Cartwright, Mark. "Mycenae." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 02 Sep 2009. Web. 28 Aug 2020.
Susan Lupack. â Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. A View from Outside the Palace: The Sanctuary and the Damos in Mycenaean Economy and Society.â American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 115, no. 2, 2011, pp. 207â 217. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3764/aja.115.2.0207. Accessed 3 Sept. 2020.
www.ancient.eu/Mycenaean_Civi...
Credit to Frank Ramspott for creating a base topographic map of Greece that I used for this video.

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  • @thehetmanmapping1434
    @thehetmanmapping14343 жыл бұрын

    On the one hand, their economic system was one of the most complex in the world, which gave the Mycenaean's their livelihoods in an otherwise destitute Greece. On the other hand, this system depended on a stable status quo, which shattered with the entry of the Bronze Age people's. Very interesting, Mycenaean Greece is definitely overlooked compared to Classical Greece

  • @calcircal6841
    @calcircal68413 жыл бұрын

    One of the most advanced and complicated civilizations of the time... destroyed by some boat bois

  • @QueenCityFilmsComm
    @QueenCityFilmsComm3 жыл бұрын

    Great work! Keep it up!

  • @covenawhite4855
    @covenawhite48553 жыл бұрын

    Mycenaean lived on through classical Greece after their Civilization died. Greeks lived on through Rome after Greek lost influence over Mediterranean and Europe. Once Rome died it lived on through the Catholic Church and Medieval Kingdoms

  • @SomasAcademy
    @SomasAcademy3 жыл бұрын

    I like the lil avatar! One small nitpick, a few of the pronunciations you use, while perfectly acceptable in English, are less accurate to the original pronunciations than other commonly used English variants; Mycenae is more accurately pronounced "My-see-nee" (Or "My-key-nee" if you want to use a classical "C"), and the "K" in "Knossos" is not silent, with the original word being written "Ko-no-so" in Linear B. It doesn't really matter, but I wanted to add something more substantial than just "nice avatar" to my comment lmao

  • @BenSHammonds
    @BenSHammonds7 ай бұрын

    I find it likely, or at least more than possible that while the Mycenaeans were involved in siege and plunder in other lands their slaves back home rose up and over threw their rulers, hince the Dorians were already there etc. Is a very good theory for at that time there was much raiding around the coasts etc. giving sufficient time for such an uprising, with most or part of the fighting men of Mycenae being gone at the time.

  • @velozio
    @velozio3 жыл бұрын

    Epic

  • @gold333
    @gold3333 жыл бұрын

    It’s not Nossos, it’s Knossos. You pronounce the K.

  • @ChronologyCast

    @ChronologyCast

    3 жыл бұрын

    As far as I can tell, the K doesn't have to be pronounced.

  • @superblacknoise

    @superblacknoise

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ChronologyCast It is pronounced in greek as in "Κνωσός". Overall a good video with indepth insights .