Ancient Ancient World World The Bronze Age Aegean M E E T I N G - PDF document

9/27/18 CIVILIZATIONS OF THE Ancient Ancient World World The Bronze Age Aegean M E E T I N G 7 � Gilgamesh’s story � The Indo-Europeans � The Minoans of Crete � The Mycenaean Greeks Gilgamesh INDO-EUROPEANS 1

9/27/18 The Bronze Age Hittites Mycenaean Assyria Akkad Greeks Babylon Sumer Minoans Egypt Indo-Europeans Germans Slavs Celts Afanasevo Danube Italic Mycenaeans Dorian Greeks Armenains Hittites Persians Vedic 2

9/27/18 Reconstructing the IE society � Farmers and stockbreeders – Bull, cow, ox, ram, ewe, lamb, pig, piglet, milk, whey – Field, dog – Shear, wool, weave – Horse – Bee, honey – Plow, oxen, yoke; grain, chaff. ?furrow – Grind, pestle, clay pot [cauldron] – Movable wealth, herd, drive [cattle], rustle [cattle] � Origins in a temperate zone – Birch, otter, beaver, lynx, bear, horse, bee – No Mediterranean or tropical fauna and flora Reconstructing the IE society � Tribal politics and kinship social groups – Household, family, clan – Chief, *reg- (rex, regulate) – No word for city – Named kin on father’s side → patrilocal marriage (brides move from father’s to husband’s family) � Three-part division? – Ritual specialist or priest white strangulation – Warrior red cutting/stabbing – Ordinary herder/cultivator black/blue drowning 3

9/27/18 Wheeled vehicles 4

9/27/18 I-E and not I-E Indo-European peoples � Hittites � Greeks (2 waves) � Persians � Hindus � Romans, Italians Other Language Groups � Afro-Asiatic – Semitic: Akkadians, Babylonians, Arabs, Phoenicians, Hebrews – Ancient Egyptians Isolates � Sumerians � Minoans � Etruscans 5