Minyans – Middle Bronze Age Greece
Minyan Ware - Greek pottery from about 2000 BC Indo-Europeans The new invaders who destroyed Lerna at the end of the Early Bronze Age in 2100 BC, were the Greeks. [...]
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Greece in the Early Bronze Age
A beaked jug from Early Bronze Age Greece (Lerna, about 2100 BC) Bronze comes to Greece Bronze is a metal that is a mixture of a little tin and a [...]
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Sparta, Greece – The city-state of Sparta in ancient Greece
The ruins of Sparta and the valley around it Sparta in the Bronze Age Sparta was a town in southern Greece. It was already a town in the Late Bronze [...]
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Greek sculpture – ancient Greece
Greek sculpture: Winged Victory (Nike of Samothrace) - Now in the Louvre, Paris What happened to all the Greek statues? Not very much Greek sculpture has survived for us to [...]
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What is Minyan Ware? Early Bronze Age
A depas cup in Minyan ware A new kind of pottery The Yamnaya, or Indo-European Greeks, arrived in Greece around 2100 BC and defeated the people who were already living [...]
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Minoan and Mycenaean Greek painting
Dolphin fresco, Knossos, Crete (about 1500 BC) Although people in Northern Europe were doing cave paintings tens of thousands of years earlier, the first paintings from Greece are not until [...]
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Minoan and Mycenaean architecture
Bronze Age palace in Knossos, Crete Around 1700 BC, a great earthquake shook the island of Crete and knocked down the palaces (or big houses) that many people had been [...]
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Ancient Greek Architecture
Greek architecture: a Bronze Age palace in Knossos, Crete The first buildings in Greece The earliest buildings people built in Greece, in the New Stone Age, are small houses or [...]
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Early Bronze Age Greek Architecture
Drawing of a megaron house One important Early Bronze Age site is the town of Lerna. Lerna has a lot of small stone houses, and one house that is larger than [...]
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Big Man government
A vase from Neolithic Sesklo, in Greece (5000 BC) Neolithic government As places got more crowded, in the Neolithic or New Stone Age period, some people began to live in [...]
