Early Ancient Greek Civilizations

Question 1

3000-1400

Answer 1

Minoan civilization

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1100

Answer 2

Dorian Invasion

Question 3

2800-1050

Answer 3

Bronze Age

Question 4

Frescoe

Answer 4

Paintings done on walls when plaster was still wet

Minoan Art

Question 5

Protogeometric Pottery

Answer 5

Degenerate form, lifeless designs

Used after Dorian Invasion

Question 6

Geometric Pottery

Answer 6

Repeating patterns, Greek-Key and meander

Question 7

Black figure

Answer 7

6th Century
Black figures on red background
Scenes of mythology

Question 8

Red Figure

Answer 8

5th and 4th Centuries
Red figures on a black background
Scenes from life of times

Question 9

Toreutics

Answer 9

Metal working

Question 10

Penethea

Answer 10

Golden Age

Question 11

How to make Bronze?

Answer 11

Blend of tin and copper

Question 12

2400

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Cretan civilization flourishes

Question 13

Cretan resources

Answer 13

Wool and oil

Question 14

Cretan palaces

Answer 14

KNOSSUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phaetus, Mallia, Crossus, and Gartyn too

Question 15

Thalassocrocy

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Rule of the sea

Question 16

Cretan King

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Minos

Question 17

Symbols for Cretan Monarchy

Answer 17

Labrys, Double Axe, Fleur-de-lis

Question 18

1900

Answer 18

Earthquakes destroy Cretan palaces

Question 19

1600

Answer 19

Everything in Crete is rebuilt

Question 20

What did Crete have that was not equaled until the Victorian Age?

Answer 20

Plumbing

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Daedalus

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Architect of the Labyrinth

Question 22

Labyrinth

Answer 22

Where Minotaur was kept

Question 23

1400

Answer 23

Cretan palaces destroyed by Mycenaean Invaders

Question 24

1287

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Battle of Cadesh

Between Egyptians and Hittites

Question 25

c. 1500

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Eruption of Thera

Question 26

Linear B

Answer 26

Inventory lists | Deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick

Question 27

c. 1250

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Final destruction at Knossus

Question 28

Synoikismos

Answer 28

Closest bindings of communities

Question 29

Chief entertainment of Crete

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Bull fighting

Question 30

Religion

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NatureNatureNatureNatureNatureNatureNatureNatureNatureNature | NO OLYMPIAN GODS

Question 31

Instead of temples, Crete had-

Answer 31

Altars

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Velchanos

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Crete's Zeus

Question 33

1900 AD

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Sir Arthur Evans unearths Knossus

Question 34

What connects Athens to Crete?

Answer 34

Theseus and the Minotaur

Question 35

Rhyton

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A drinking vessel in the forms of horns

Question 36

Pelasgians

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People of the sea

Question 37

Hellenes

Answer 37

Greeks' name for themselves

Question 38

Hellas

Answer 38

Greece

Question 39

Barbarian

Answer 39

Anyone who did not speak Greek

Question 40

Helladic

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All of Greek history before the Dorian Invasion

Question 41

Hellenic

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All of Greek history from the Dorian Invasion to the death of Alexander the Great

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Polis

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City-states | Rise in 8th century

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Acropolis

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Fortified hill

Question 44

Isthmus Wall

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Wall built across the isthmus of Corinth by the Mycenaeans

Question 45

Magna Graecia

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Italy

Question 46

Rhetoric

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Science of rhetoric | Originated in Athens and Sicily

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Ionians

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Lived around Attica | Athenians

Question 48

Aeolians

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Lived around Thessaly and Boeotia | Thebans

Question 49

Dorians

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Occupied most of the Peloponnese | Spartans

Question 50

Achaeans

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``` Mingled their blood with Pelasgo-Mycenaeans Was ruling class in 1600s & 1300s ```

Question 51

Where were the Mycenaean palaces?

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Mycenae and Tiryns

Question 52

Megron

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Large hall or reception room

Question 53

When did Mycenaeans become the dominant people on the Greek Mainland?

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1600

Question 54

What was built leading into Mycenae?

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Lions Gate

Question 55

1879 AD

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Heinrich Schliemann unearths Troy

Question 56

1876 AD

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Heinrich Schliemann unearths Mycenae

Question 57

Schliemann found-

Answer 57

Lion's Gate, Treasury of Atreus, Tomb of Clytemnestra, & Face of Agamemnon

Question 58

1283

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Pelops arrives in Elis

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1261

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Hercules is born

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1225

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Unification of Attica Theseus becomes King of Athens Oedipus becomes King of Thebes

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1209

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Hercules dies

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1582

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Cecrops founded Athens

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1313

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Cadmus founded Thebes

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1192-1183

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Trojan War

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Who calculated the fall of Troy as 1183?

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Eratosthenes

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What caused the Trojan War?

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The Greeks wanted to expand their trade

Question 67

Homer

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c. 850 From Chios Called "The Poet" Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 68

What weapons did the Dorian Invaders use?

Answer 68

Iron

Question 69

What was the main factor that spread the Greek Civilization?

Answer 69

Colonization

Question 70

Where did the Dorians establish their capital?

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Argos

Question 71

What is the only area of the Peloponnesus not conquered by the Dorians?

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Arcadia

Question 72

What people were reduced to slavery by the Dorians?

Answer 72

Achaeans

Question 73

Archimedes

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Born in Syracuse | Built war engines for Heiron

Question 74

1st Greek colony in Italy

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Cyme(Cumae)

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Pythagoras

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Mathematician | "Love of wisdom", 703

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734

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Founding of Corcyra

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Cleruchy

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Lot holders

Question 78

Lelantine War

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First major conflict in Greek History 8th century Struggle between Chalcis and Eretria

Question 79

1400-1100

Answer 79

Mycenaean Civilization