Mycenae’s importance comes from sea transport, logistics, piracy, and trade-route control in the Mediterranean system.
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Mycenae
Mycenae’s importance comes from sea transport, logistics, piracy, and trade-route control in the Mediterranean system.
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The Mycenaean palace economy centralized food in the palace and redistributed it to artisans making trade goods, producing a simple but effective command economy.
Mycenaean wealth is visible in gold masks, gold-hilted weapons, defensive walls, and increasingly elaborate tombs.
Jiang says Mycenaeans learned elaborate burial practices from Egypt because the two civilizations were in close contact.
The Dark Ages mean Greeks lost the capacity to write, while Mycenaean Greece transforms from a palace economy into polis city-states competing against each other.
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"...about transportation, logistics, piracy, and controlling trade routes. Okay? That's why Mycenae was so important at this time. This is Troy, by the way."
"Okay. So, this is an artist's tradition of what the Mycenaean civilization looked like. It is what we call a palace economy, meaning all..."
"...This is something called the Lion's Gate. So, the entrance into Mycenae. This is a very wealthy place. Rough time. Lots of wars. Lots..."
"The other thing about the Mycenaean civilization is their tombs are very, very elaborate. Okay? This is the entrance into one of their tombs...."
"So if you look at Mycenaean Greece, and then we transition into the Dark Ages. Okay. The Dark Ages does not, all it means..."
"...Trojan War, what will happen is you have different people of Mycenae go attack Troy because it's such a strategic location. Right? If they're..."
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