History

Question 1

The Bronze Age

Answer 1

• early (3000-2000BC)
• middle (2000-1600bc)
• late (1600-1100 BC)

(Minoan, Cycladic, Helladic)
+ Mycenaean in the late Bronze Age

Question 2

The flood tablet

Answer 2

Related to the epic of gilgamesh

Question 3

Neolithic age

Answer 3

(6500-3000BC)

Farming villages, pottery, domesticating animals
Early agricultural society

Question 4

Bronze Age in Crete is designated as the

Answer 4

Minoan

Question 5

Minoan (3000-2000BC)

Answer 5

Early Bronze Age
Crete, cnossus

Thalassocracy, trade , powerful on the sea

Linear A writing system (non Greek language)

Matriarchal religion? Ruled by women?

Question 6

Middle Bronze Age

Answer 6

(2000-1600)

Eruption of thera ( greatest volcanic eruption, blew out the entire center of the island)

First wave of IE invaders
IE language becomes Greek
Male-dominated gods, located on Mt Olympus
Linear B

Question 7

Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean)

Answer 7

1600-1100 bc
Mycenaean takeover
Invasion of Crete 
Cnossus destroyed 
Trojan war 
Mycenae tiryns Argos

Question 8

Archaic period

Answer 8

800-480
Homer 
Hesiod 
Homeric hymns
Olympic Games 
City states emerge

Question 9

Classical period

Answer 9

Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides Athenian democracy

Question 10

Macedonian conquest

Answer 10

End of the classical period
Alexander the Great
Phillip of Macedon

Question 11

Hellenistic period

Answer 11

323-31

Greece becomes Roman province in 146bc