MYCENAEANS

Who were the Mycenaeans? What is their possible relationship to the Iliad and Odyssey? What happened to them? Why are they considered important?**
 * __DISCUSS THE ANCIENT MYCENAEANS, THEIR CULTURE, AND THEIR IMPORTANCE__

1. The Mycenaeans were the first Greeks who established their own cities after looting the Neolithic cities already there. (cne)

2.The Mycenaeans learned a great deal from the Minoans on Crete, especially shipbuilding.(dbe)

3.The Mycenaeans invaded Crete and lived in Knossos around 1480 B.C.(dbe)

4. The Myceneans came as warriors. (cmy)

5. The capitol for the Myceneans was Peloponnesus. (cmy)

6. The Mycenaeans invaded Knossos in 1480 BC and lived there until a flash flood and earthquake weakened their city, and the civilization came to an end. (mhu)

7. The Mycenaean capital was named Mycenanae. (jmo)

8. These are the first Greeks. When they arrived, they started as warriors, but started to make towns surrounded by strong walls. The Mycenians learned alot from the Minoans, then carried on to invade Crete. Archaeologists have found many artifacts with linear B writing on them. The Mycenean civilization came to an end, but stories that are still remembered at told in Homers books the Iliad and the Odyssey. (jat)

9. The myceneans were famous for making pottery. (wste)

10. The Mycenaeans were fearsome Greek warriors. They are known as the Early Greeks. Historians believe that IF the Iliad and the Odyssey were true events in history, the Mycenaeans would be the Greeks in the stories. (AGr)

11. The palace at Mycenae was well guarded because it laid on a 900 foot hill and was surrounded by a stone wall to prevent attacks.(bre)

12.The kings wanted their bodies to be buried inside the city walls. (WCo)

13. The Mycenaeans were around from about 1600 to 1000 BC. In the two hundred year overlap of the end of Minoan times, 1400, from the beginning of their time, 1600, they conquered the Minoans and took over Crete. (hpo)

14. The Trojan war is believed to have occurred near the end of the Mycenaean Age, about the 1200s, so they would be the "Greeks" in the Iliad and the Odyssey, supposing that the Trojan War even took place.

15. The Mycenaeans wrote linear B, which CAN be deciphered, unlike the linear A it derived from. (eda)

16. The Mycenaeans were vigorous sea-traders and ferocious warriors. (eda)

17. Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae, one of the Mycenaean's biggest cities. (WCo)

18.

19.

20.