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9/27/18 CIVILIZATIONS OF THE Ancient Ancient World World The Bronze Age Aegean M E E T I N G 7 Gilgameshs story The Indo-Europeans The Minoans of Crete The Mycenaean Greeks Gilgamesh INDO-EUROPEANS 1 9/27/18 The

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CIVILIZATIONS OF THE

Ancient World Ancient World

The Bronze Age Aegean

Gilgamesh’s story The Indo-Europeans The Minoans of Crete The Mycenaean Greeks

M E E T I N G 7

Gilgamesh

INDO-EUROPEANS

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The Bronze Age

Sumer

Egypt

Akkad Babylon

Assyria

Minoans

Mycenaean

Greeks Hittites

Indo-Europeans

Hittites Persians Vedic Mycenaeans Dorian Greeks Italic Celts Germans Slavs Armenains Danube Afanasevo

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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

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Wheeled vehicles

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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