Thursday, September 29, 2011

  1. What values where most important to the early Greeks and why were they considered so important?
Athleticism
Hospitality
Ingenuity
Respect  
Justice
Loyalty
Team- work
Intuition
From what i just experienced, reading about Odysseus's travels back to his town. There was Loyalty, ingenuity, and hospitality those three were the biggest trait in the Greeks life style, the least recognized was intuition.Loyalty for the Greeks was one of the important trait because for travelers or maybe a hidden king might come up to your door and might ask for a place to sleep and food, you must let them come in and stay the night. The Greeks really believed in this one trait. Another great trait was Ingenuity the Greeks had to be resourceful and skillful during long trips.They also had to be ingenue when they were in battle, thing through strategies and making plans.  

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Minoas and Myceneaens

Minoans were a peaceful cheerful civilization they had no army, the high walls the protect them selves and they had no weapons. Minoans used mud brick to make some houses but the palace was built out of cold and bronze. The Minoans believed a one god, when someone died they would walk around praying for him or her. The Minoans had advance plumage. They had flushing toilets, running water and also they had a bath tube that fit the body and would be dumped when finished bathing. They had fountain in the middle of the room to keep it cool.The writing of the Minoans was not translated to this day, it was made of pictographs. But on the other hand there where the Mycenaean who where basically the opposite of the Minoans.

The civilization who would most likely survive in the periods of Greek history would be Mycenaean because they could protect them selves unlike the Minoans they had different beliefs and culture. There civilization was more i will kill and conquer unlike the Minoans which were like hippies and that's why the Minoans wouldn't survive.