Social Sciences and History / Unit 5 SSH 0419 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bronze Age Collapse and the Alphabet
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The idea
Minoans wrote Linear A, still undeciphered; Mycenaeans wrote Linear B, an early Greek. About twelve hundred BCE the Late Bronze Age states collapsed in wars and migrations. The Phoenicians invented the alphabet about eleven hundred BCE and linked the basin by trade.
In practice
Phoenicians and Greeks in Italy shaping the Etruscans.
Where people slip
Unit 03 carries Greece and Rome at length.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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