Mycenaean Culture

The Mycenaean people were named after the city of Mycenae which was the powerful city state at the time. This civilization appeared during the late Bronze Age, were it started on the mainland under Cretan influence. Established cities of Pylos, Thebes, Athens, and Tiryns. They were seafaring people which meant they lived near the sea. One thing that they benefited to Greece was their art and culture. But what stood out the most, was their art of naturally forming flowing designs on pottery, fresco, and jewelry which was admired by their own people and to other city-states. also, their art and religious beliefs had some similarities and connected with each other . Mycenaean religion had many beliefs and rituals such as, animal sacrifice, communal …show more content…
Merchants would travel across the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The middle class had a remarkable amount of prosperity. The last level are the slaves of the civilization that were owned by kings and aristocrats. Since we know that kings lived in temples or kingdoms, I'm going to explain about the other classes. Mycenaean people lived in scattered villages, Workers worked on communal land or land owned by the kings , Landowners would give kings food, horse, weapons and chariots for protection and Nobles were watched closely by the Kings for taxes.this tax collectors would collect grain and wine, and disbursed as …show more content…
The Mycenaean civilization built the bridge during 1300- 1190 B.C .This Bridge is seventy two feet long, eighteen feet wide, with a base of thirteen feet, and has a culvert span of one meters . They used the corbel arch bridge design and used cyclopean stone to construct the bridge. Being over 2000 years old it is one of the oldest arch bridges that is still in use by the locals. It was built for bull and horse charts / military road network. We think that the society built this bridge because they needed a way to get across a valley rather take a longer route somewhere else. This bridge tell us that there society was very advanced in architecture for their time and were really good at problem