Compare the role of technology in the rise of complex states among the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Hittites
What will be an ideal response?
A. Role of Technology
1. Minoans
a. develop of architecture in palaces to serve as storehouses
1. elite homes designed with elaborate architecture
b. developed methods of storage to protect foodstuffs
c. innovations in craft making for exports
1. spinning and weaving fine garments
2. delicately painting stone jars
3. hammering gold and bronze into jewels and chariots
d. development of art
1. colorful pottery that was as thin as porcelain
2. elaborate stone vases ground into seductively sinuous shapes
3. elaborately painted groundstone baths
e. language innovations
1. previous language was unknown and its records are undecipherable
2. archives began to be written in an early form of Greek
2. Mycenaeans
a. writing existed in clay tablets
1. organized and listed vital political and economic duties
b. innovations in craft making for exports
1. bronzeware and perfumed oils for export
c. developed means of protection against warfare
1. mainland palaces were heavily and cleverly fortified
3. Hittites
a. development of the idea of common allegiance
1. drew people into a single network of production and distribution
2. independent peasants rather than bonded or enslaved workers or wage earners
b. utilized the products of mixed farming
1. livestock produced fertilizer
2. milk-rich diets provided the calories and nutrients that improve human fertility
3. opportunity for economic specialization and urbanization
4. provided mobilization of manpower for war
c. development of a political system
1. included law codes
d. inclusion of women in power
1. diviners and curers
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