Aegean Bronze Age Flashcards by ShunXXX196 Unknown | Brainscape

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Delos

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island during the early bronze age where Apollo and Artemis (born of Zeus and Dellos) were born

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cycladic figurine

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Aegean figure found around Delos (Not crete)

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Minoan Palace

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Palace of Knossos

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labyrinth

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a maze built by Dionysis to keep the Minotaur (in Crete)

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pier-door partition

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opening between two walls to make the room larger

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Mycenaean citadel

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Tiryns in Greece

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cyclopean

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so large that it suggests cyclops made it

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Mycenaean megaron

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large reception hall and throne room with a two column porch

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Grave Circle A

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corbelled vaulting

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a vault made by piling stone until until the walls meet in an arch

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tholos tomb

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a circular floor plan

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chryselephantine

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sculpture overlaid with gold and ivory

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Linear A

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Minoan writing never deciphered

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Linear B

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mainland Greece writing deciphered in world war 2 (the Greek alphabet)

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