4 Terms

Question 1

Cyclades

Answer 1

c. 3000-1600 B.C.E. do not have written records. used tools fashioned from obsidian or volcanic glass to create these works.

Question 2

Minos/Minotaur/Minoans

Answer 2

c. 3000-1400 B.C.E. people of ancient Crete. not only self-sufficient, but, due to its ports and trade, was rather prosperous.

Question 3

Linear A

Answer 3

early form of writing that has not been deciphered

Question 4

Linear B

Answer 4

early form of Greek

Question 5

Sir Arthur Evans

Answer 5

excavated on Crete from 1900 - 1905, as well as reconstructed some of the Knossos temple complex. He gave these people the name Minoans, after the legend.

Question 6

Mycenean

Answer 6

c. 1400 -1100 B.C.E. Minoan culture was in a decline and ended abruptly around 1400 BCE, when Mycenean culture becomes dominant. The Minoans influenced the Myceneans, there is evidence of trade, contact between the cultures and examples of linear B, the mainland’s writing, show up on Crete.

Question 7

Heinrich Schlieman

Answer 7

1869-70 he began work in Turkey excavating. Schlieman studied the descriptions of sites in the poems and figured out a site to start digging (Hissarlik). The 6th layer is now considered to be Homer’s Troy. Schliemann also excavated on the Greek mainland and found burials at Mycenae

Question 8

Corbel

Answer 8

a way of using stepped bricks, built up to a point at the top, to relieve the weight of the lintel above.