Exam 2 Study Guide

Question 1

What were the Minoans like?

Answer 1

Luxurious, peaceful, had many palaces

Question 2

What were the Mycenaeans like?

Answer 2

Warlike

Question 3

What were the dark ages/geometric pd like?

Answer 3

We don’t know much. It was assumed to be a dark age, but there is evidence of good trade

Question 4

What was the Archaic Pd like?

Answer 4

Cultural revolution, age of Tyranny, Crisis in the Polis, ends with Persian wars

Question 5

What was the Classical Pd like?

Answer 5

Delian League, Athens takes over, Athens becomes the cultural center, monuments, plays, philosophy, etc boom

Question 6

What was the Hellenistic Pd like?

Answer 6

Macedonian rule

Question 7

When was the 1st Persian war?

Answer 7

490

Question 8

When was the 2nd Persian war?

Answer 8

480-479

Question 9

When was the Peloponnesian war?

Answer 9

431-404

Question 10

Administrative complex (“palace”)

Answer 10

Multiple story complex that was an admin center as well as where the leader’s family would live

Question 11

Bull leaping

Answer 11

Minoans were famous for bull-leaping, had art of it, it may have been religious

Question 12

Central court

Answer 12

Main part of the palace

Question 13

magazine

Answer 13

storage vessel

Question 14

Citadel

Answer 14

Seat of the ruler, where his family would live, heavily defended

Question 15

Cyclopean masonry

Answer 15

Rough boulders, later Greeks thought the Cyclops had built this

Question 16

Megaron

Answer 16

Ceremonial throne room

Question 17

Shaft graves

Answer 17

Family burials filled with gold and weapons

Question 18

Lion Gate

Answer 18

Gate with relieving triangle, lead into Mycenae, huge lions, wall jutted out

Question 19

Tholos tomb

Answer 19

Tombs for the ruler and family, huge, doorway w/ relieving triangle, 40 ft tall, Reused for generations

Question 20

Linear A

Answer 20

Non-Greek, Minoan, Cannot read it

Question 21

Linear B

Answer 21

Greek, Mycenaean, can read

Question 22

Greek Alphabet

Answer 22

Came in the Greek Renaissance, adapted from Phoenicians

Question 23

Delian League

Answer 23

150 Greek states united, leader- Athens, Goals- stop Persia, revenge, booty

Question 24

Athenian Empire

Answer 24

Athens takes charge of Delian League, won’t let people leave, Democracy is tied to the Empire

Question 25

Hoplite

Answer 25

Citizen soldiers, state provided armor, organized ranks

Question 26

Tyrant

Answer 26

"Big man" one who seizes control by irregular means, popular leader

Question 27

Democracy

Answer 27

diffusion of political power throughout male citizen body

Question 28

Oligarchy

Answer 28

Rule by a few

Question 29

Monarchy

Answer 29

Rule by one

Question 30

Xenia

Answer 30

guest/host relationship overseen by Zeus

Question 31

Geras

Answer 31

Prize, representation of time

Question 32

Time

Answer 32

Honor, value

Question 33

Kleos

Answer 33

Immortal glory

Question 34

Menis

Answer 34

Superhuman rage

Question 35

Promakhoi

Answer 35

fighting at close range

Question 36

Heroic Code

Answer 36

beat death, name survives forever. Geras, Time, and Kleos

Question 37

Archon

Answer 37

Replace Basileus as rulers, different types

Question 38

Drama

Answer 38

Dramatic plays

Question 39

Tragedy

Answer 39

Sad plays

Question 40

Old comedy

Answer 40

Made fun of plotics

Question 41

Helots

Answer 41

Inhabitants reduced to subservient state

Question 42

Agoge

Answer 42

Spartan Institutional training

Question 43

Gerousia

Answer 43

Spartan council of Elders

Question 44

Polis

Answer 44

City state

Question 45

8th Century Renaissance

Answer 45

Homer, Hesiod, Greek alphabet, Art, mythology, Polis

Question 46

War of the successors

Answer 46

Who would take over Alexander's empire, divided into Kingdoms

Question 47

12th century collapse

Answer 47

Mycenaean cities destroyed, Hittites fall, Egypt attacked, Mycenaeans leave, 1/2 of Greece goes away

Question 48

Sir Arthur Evans

Answer 48

Found Minoans

Question 49

Heinrich Schliemann

Answer 49

Found Mycenaeans and Troy

Question 50

Michael Ventris

Answer 50

Cracked linear B

Question 51

Knossos

Answer 51

Biggest Minoan Palace, maybe ruled them all

Question 52

Mycenae

Answer 52

Main city of Mycenaeans

Question 53

Athens

Answer 53

Greek city, Beginnings of democracy, took charge of Greece

Question 54

Sparta

Answer 54

Militaristic, Dorian, Isolated

Question 55

Drakon

Answer 55

Athenian Tyrant, wrote laws

Question 56

Solon

Answer 56

Athenian tyrant, created laws abolishing debt, debt-slavery, horoi, new citizen classifications, changed too much

Question 57

Peisistratos

Answer 57

3 coups to take over Athens, ruled with tight grip, grew festivals, trade, economy, building, population, taxes, etc``

Question 58

Hippias and Hipparchos

Answer 58

Sons of Peisistratos, fear of assassination, make crazy laws, assassinated b/c of a love triangle

Question 59

Kleisthenes

Answer 59

Takes aristocratic power away, makes a council of 500, forces people to partake in gov, too much change, new leader every day

Question 60

Herodotus

Answer 60

Greek historian, said Persian army was 5 million strong

Question 61

Thucydides

Answer 61

Also Greek historian, wrote about Peloponnesian war, predicted it to be most important in Greek history

Question 62

Leonidas

Answer 62

One of 2 Spartan kings, died at Thermopylae

Question 63

Themistokles

Answer 63

Archon, Convinces Greece to build bigger Navy, saves Greece

Question 64

Darius

Answer 64

Persian King, wants to punish the Greeks

Question 65

Xerxes

Answer 65

Son of Darius, Strong army and navy, huge army, loses to Greeks, second Persian War

Question 66

Peloponnesian War

Answer 66

Civil war: Sparta vs Athens, Sparts wins, but not real winner

Question 67

Perikles

Answer 67

Athenian leader, attacks Spartan coast

Question 68

Macedon

Answer 68

North Greek, different cultures, same language, united by Phillip II, starts taking on a more Greek culture

Question 69

Phillip II

Answer 69

Unites Greece, assassinated

Question 70

Alexander the Great

Answer 70

Succeeds Phillip II, Takes over Persian empire, dies of fever

Question 71

Ptolemy

Answer 71

Alexander's general, takes over Egyptian territory

Question 72

When was the Ionian Revolt?

Answer 72

499

Question 73

When were the Minoans?

Answer 73

1750-1490

Question 74

When were the Macedonians?

Answer 74

1600-1200

Question 75

When was the Geometric pd?

Answer 75

1100-700

Question 76

When was the Archaic Pd?

Answer 76

700-480

Question 77

When was the Classical Pd?

Answer 77

480-330

Question 78

When was the Hellenistic Pd?

Answer 78

330-30