known about Minoans religion, most of their art includes many pictures of bulls. This infers they may have worshipped bulls, or thought of the bulls as gods. Minoans lived on the island of Crete; the name of this civilization is unknown archaeologists named them after a legendary king (Ellis, 114). The Minoans exceeded in art, trade, craftsmen and sailing. Mycenaean’s conquered both Crete and the mainland of the Minoan civilization. They exceed in both war and trade, like the Minoans they also traded
In ancient Greece, the Mycenaean civilizations and the Minoan civilization they all had different daily lives of their ordinary people. In ancient Egypt their daily/simple life was that simple in the things that they did and the material possessions that they held onto. In Minoan civilization, they were on the island of Crete which since it was an island trade was their daily activities. And in the Mycenaean civilizations were much more advance than the Minoan people and they too were also traders
court where men would jump over bulls” ("Minoans"). The bull was thought to represent male fertility as the head and horns represented the female vulva or sometimes the bull acted as a sacrificial figure. Bull jumping is also thought to show signs of men and women as an equal social status because women were also believed to have participated in the jumping of the bulls depicted by the art found in the remains of the palace, “the statues of priestesses in Minoan culture and frescoes showing men and women
EWH: Ancient Greece: Study Guide Any and all of these items may appear on the test. If it is not on this list it will not be on the test as a regular question, only potentially as a bonus question. You may create one double sided 3” x 5” notecard for the test. 1. How far did Alexander the Great’s Empire reach? Alexander the Great’s Empire reached from Greece to the Indus River. 2. What did Greek architecture seek to reflect? Greek architecture seeks to reflect perfect balance and universal harmony
The Spanish colonization seemed like a good development but it brought a lot of chaos when the Spanish became in contact with the indigenous people of the New World. Bartolomé de las Casas’s main argument is basically how the Spanish began by wiping out large amounts of natives and then this eventually evolved to enslaving them and putting them through hard labor instead of just killing them. “Now, in 1546, Peru daily witnesses acts of a spine-chilling barbarity unequalled by anything seen before
introduction to temples and foreign influences Greek civilization is one of the greatest civilization that ever created , their building and their technique is very beautiful and amazing , their civilization was very powerful and strong , their main land the island of Greece was a rocky island and full of mountain and a few forests , which make the material used in building is stone because it was available and it was easy to work on it , they were best known from their temples even that most of