Wednesday, November 19, 2008

5|4|3|2|1 pggs 20-42

5 Comments
  • These two chapters are mostly about the Bronze age of Europe.
  • The Neolithic culture of Crete is immensely old.
  • By rge 1150 BC these Bronze Age lords were being overwhelmed by new invaders from the north the iron weapons and greater manpower.
  • Bronze Age of Europe, like Mycenae, now had to face the infiltration of new invaders
  • The decline of the Hittie and Egyptian empires in the thirteenth century BC gave the Phoenician cities a short lived independence, and afterwards they were far too useful for the Assyrians and Persiajs to destroy.

4 Questions

  • What type of Evidence do the people who wrote this have?
  • Do any of these stories have to deal with religion?
  • Is the book wrote by the date of the incidents?
  • What would happen if the Bronze age in Europe would have never tooken place?

3 Vocabulary

  • Hellenic- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., esp. before the time of
  • Ionia-of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., esp. before the time of
  • Savagery- an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity

2 Literary Terms

  • Foreshadowing
  • Similie

1 Overview Sentance

  • I leared about most of the history of the Bronze Age of Europe

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