The Emergence of Bronze Age Aegean States

This module explores the emergence of Bronze Age Aegean States.

Topics covered include the introduction of the Neolithic way of life to the Aegean region from 7000 BC; the development of small-scale hierarchical societies throughout the Aegean in the third millennium BC; the emergence of the first state level societies on Crete ca. 2000 BC; the elaboration of Minoan palatial society through the second millennium BC; the interaction of Minoan states with other societies in the East Mediterranean; the cultural influence of Minoan societies in the southern Aegean; the collapse of Neopalatial Cretan states and the Mycenaeanisation of Crete; the final collapse of state society on Crete, and the end of the Bronze Age.