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Verses with six beats to each line are called?
Hexameters
What german businessman traveled to the world that Homer describes in his hexameters?
Schiliemann
Where did Schiliemann discover palaces and the tombs of kings, armor, and shields as the Homeric songs described?
Mycenae
The place that was really destroyed by fire?
Troy
What was found in Mycenae that had hieroglyphs on it and actually wasn’t from that place?
A ring
What was the hieroglyphs inscribed on the ring?
The name of an Egyptian king who lived around 1400 B.C.
The predecessor of an Egyptian king also known as the great reformer?
Akhenaton
A collection of small fortified cities, each with its own palace and King?
Greece
What took courage as well as cunning and was a task which fell to the nobility?
Searaiders
These noblemen weren’t interested in preserving the ways of their ancestors and with there many raids gave them new ideas and taught them to relish variety and change?
Assyrians
Where were the items that schiliemann found in his excavations that were believed to have come from Greek cities actually invented from?
On an island nearby called Crete
What people built splendid royal palaces, with innumerable rooms, staircases running up and down in all directions, great pillars, courtyards, corridors, and cellars-a veritable labyrinth?
The Cretans
Around when were Homeric poems composed?
Before 800 B.C.
The Dorians settled right down into the southernmost tip of Greece which looks like a maple leaf and is called what?
Peloponnese
Peloponnese subdued the inhabitants and set them to work in fields and founded a city where they lived and called it?
Sparta
