What resources made the Minoans and Mycenaeans successful in developing complex states?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Minoan resources
1. lavish world was painfully carved from a tough environment, harsh soil, and dangerous seas
2. used enforcement to control an unpredictable food supply
a. organized agriculture with both farming and herding
b. state-regulated trade
1. efficient sea trade brought many luxuries to the elite
3. palace functioned as a storehouse
a. vital part of Cretan political and economic system
b. craft workshops inside the palaces added value to imports
c. large staffs
B. Mycenean resources
1. kings' courts were centered in palace-storehouses like those of Crete
a. palace officials and staff were responsible for vital tasks
b. levying taxes, checking that the landowner class observed its social obligations, mobilizing resources for public works, and gathering raw materials for manufacture and trade
c. workshops turned out bronzeware and perfumed oils for export
2. differences in the roles of women
a. Cretan art depicts women in public roles, Mycenean artists usually showed women in domestic roles
3. extensive trade
a. Mycenean traders reached across northern Europe as far as Scandinavia
4. fortified for warfare
a. essential duty of the palace bureaucrats was to equip their rulers for almost constant warfare
b. Unlike Cretan sites, the mainland palaces were heavily and cleverlyfortified
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