Mycenaean's

By Dylan and Cody.

How did the Mycenaean's live?

The Mycenaean's were skilled craft men. They carved gems, jewellery and vases out of pottery or bronze.

Did you know that the Mycenaean's were more relaxed than the Minoans and that the minoans were more war like.

• They had a lot of their trades with Cypress, Egypt, south Italy, Sicily and Levant. The wool on the sheep was made into linen which went all over the East Mediterranean.

• The Mycenaean's lived between 1600BC and 1100BC. They lived at the end of the Hellenic period which was named after Alexander the great.

What time period did they live in?

• About 1100BC they perished for an unknown course. They could’ve been invaded or a some sort of disease or natural course. Maybe even climate change. This happened at the same time as the bronze aged people collapse and Greece went into the dark ages.

Mycenaean's at war.

• They Mycenaean’s had taken over a lot of Greece including defeating troy twice. Troy is a very powerful city. They also defeated Crete. Crete is the centre of the Minoans territory and somehow the got hold of it.

• The Mycenaean's defeated the minions and took over much of Greece.

• The Mycenaean civilization was dominated by a warrior called aristocracy.

Did you know that aristocracy was a form of government.

• The Greeks or the Trojans could win the war till one of the Greek kings, Odysseus of Ithaca, had the idea to build a horse that is on wheels. So they built a big wooden horse big enough to fit two soldiers inside.

The Trojan war.

• They gave the horse to the Trojan's and sailed off, leaving a Greek to tell them what the horse was for. The Trojans soon found the horse and decided to put into the city of troy.

• Thy left it outside the temple of Athena and then celebrated their victory. After a while they fell asleep, this is when the Greek soldiers sneaked out of the horse and killed the guards at the wall. They then signal to the rest of the Greeks to come and attack troy.

• The Trojans fought back but they were defeated.

This is one of homers tale that is seen to be a myth but some parts of it are true. Homer may have got bits of other little battles and turned it into a bigger battle.

The lowest class houses were 5-20 metres long. They could have many rooms.

The bigger, more important people got a house 20-35metres with larger rooms and central courtyards.

Mycenaean's houses

The lions gate

In a palace it might include a work room, courtyards, store rooms, living quarters and reception halls.

The heart of the palace is called the megaron, this is were the throne room. It is set out in a circler heath surrounded by four columns. The throne would usually be on the right hand side of the doorway. On the upstairs there would be private quarters for the royal family and some store rooms.

Palaces

• The Mycenaean's buried them in a pit or a stone lined cist. They put jewellery and pottery inside the grave, these are the funerary objects. The high people who were buried got a tumulus (mound).

Did you know that some graves had gold, silver, weapon and/or jewellery.

Funerals

Vessels• The vessels varied their size but most of the vessels

were more luxuries.Statuary• They didn’t make any sculpture a large size. The used

terracotta for making anthromorphic figurines. They also paint them.

Art and craft work.

Frescoes• The Mycenaean's painting were very

influenced by the Minoans. They painted battles, processions, mythology narratives and the hunt.

• Most of the armour was made for a soldier in a chariot. The cuirass is made up of bronze plates sewn to a leather garment.

Armour and weapons.

• The helmets were boars tusk sown to a leather or cloth backing.

• There were two types of shield, a figure of eight or a fiddle shield. They were either wood or metal and they were so big a warrior could get his whole body behind it.

• To fight they used spears, swords or javelins. They also used bow and arrows and daggers.

Website. What did I use it for? Rating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece

Most our information. It was very good because it had almost every thing.

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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/

We used this to learn what some of the words mean

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http://www.geocities.com/i_georganas/society.html

This is just a good website it has a lot of information

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http://images.google.com/images?rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGIT_en-GB&q=pictures+of+the+mycenaean's&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=Hx9sSpKXFoPAsQP_7pSWBQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1

We got our pictures here and they had all the ones I wanted.

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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/religion/myths/trojanhorse.htm

We learnt about the Trojan horse. It was just a great website

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http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekarchaeology/g/Mycenaean.htm

This told me some stuff. 3/10

Bibliography

• Anthromorphic- described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes

• Cist- a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial chamber typically lined with stone

• Myth- a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon

• Aristocracy- government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class

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