Experience Humanities

Book: Matthews, Platt, and Noble (2014). Experience Humanities Volume 1:
Beginnings Through the Renaissance. (8th Edition). McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. 1

Chapter 2 - The Aegean: the Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic Age.
Chapter 2 - Complete Critical Thinking Questions 1 through 4 on page 33 in your text.

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. How do epic and lyric poetry differ from each other?
4. In what ways do Greek religion and philosophy differ from each other, and how do both differ from the
   achievements of the Mesopotamians and Egyptians?

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