Ancient Aegean

Question 1

period

Answer 1

bronze age

Question 2

Geography

Answer 2

Aegean Sea, Asia Minor, Levant, Crete, Cyclades, Peloponnese

Question 3

Cultures

Answer 3

Cycladic, Trojan, Minoan, Mycenaean, Indo-European, Sea-Peoples

Question 4

labryinth

Answer 4

a maze-like structure

Question 5

a maze-like structure

Answer 5

labryinth

Question 6

megaron

Answer 6

the great hall (show off how wealthy you are)

Question 7

the great hall (show off how wealthy you are)

Answer 7

megaron

Question 8

cyclopean

Answer 8

type of masonry made with massive irregular blocks

Question 9

type of masonry made with massive irregular blocks

Answer 9

cyclopean

Question 10

tholos

Answer 10

A type of funerary structure; constructed from a stone-reinforced hollowed out hill

Question 11

A type of funerary structure; constructed from a stone-reinforced hollowed out hill

Answer 11

tholos

Question 12

Minos

Answer 12

Legendary king of Crete; commissioned the construction of the Labyrinth of the Minotaur.

Question 13

Legendary king of Crete; commissioned the construction of the Labyrinth of the Minotaur.

Answer 13

Minos

Question 14

Minotaur

Answer 14

a monster with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull

Question 15

a monster with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull

Answer 15

Minotaur

Question 16

Linear A

Answer 16

Minoan writing

we can’t read it

Question 17

Minoan writing

we can’t read it

Answer 17

Linear A

Question 18

Linear B

Answer 18

Mycenaean writing

we can read some of it

Question 19

Mycenaean writing

we can read some of it

Answer 19

Linear B

Question 20

Homer

Answer 20

Legendary Greek bard, credited with authoring the Iliad and Odyssey.

Question 21

Legendary Greek bard, credited with authoring the Iliad and Odyssey.

Answer 21

Homer

Question 22

Illiad & Odyssey

Answer 22

Epic written by Homer

Odysseus is the protagonist (king of Ithaca)

Question 23

Epic written by Homer

Answer 23

Illiad & Odyssey

Question 24

Myth & Legend

Answer 24

I guess Illiad & Odyssey

Made people assume there was a bronze age civilization here

Question 25

History & Archaeology

Answer 25

Illiad | great civilizations: Schliemann found Troy, Evans found the labyrinth

Question 26

The "Great Catastrophe"

Answer 26

volcanic explosion, poisoning everything Great Catastrophe happened 200 years later possibly from lack of resources (fighting for what little there was and dying from lack of resources) lead to population shift "Greek Dark Age"

Question 27

Minoans

Answer 27

Crete Arthur Evan rediscovered the nation little known about them: trade economy what we think: matriarchal, egalitarian society totally guessing and totally wrong: chthonic pantheon, peaceful

Question 28

Mycenaeans

Answer 28

conquerors, took over Minoans (diminished at this point) Schliemann rediscovers them we know: Patriarchal, conquest economy, hierarchical society, war-like think:celestial pantheon

Question 29

Comparing Minoans and Mycenaeans

Answer 29

Vincent Scully polarized the Minoans and Mycenaeans. If Mycenaeans had one trait, the Minoans had the opposite of it. That was straight up wrong.