Question

1.What key aspects of the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures lived on among the later Greeks?

2.What were the principal political and social achievements of the Greek Archaic period?

3.In what ways do Greek religion and philosophy differ from each other?

Answer 1

• Minoan culture developed in middle bronze age,then in late bronze age Mycenaean culture developed. Mycenaean carried great impact of Minoan culture in the fields like architecture, poetry art, relegion.
• Later both cultures passed their knowledge, tradition, art to the later Greeks.
• The tone of later Greek and mycenaeans speaking greek was quite similar.
• The ancient cultures have impact of the epic poetry and myths about wars happenen that time.
• Many of the gods were worrshipped by later Greeks once followed in Mycenaean age like Apolo , Athena etc.
• These old cultures aslo influenced the architecture of later greek structurs like use of columns and similar defence walls formations.