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Humanities Chapter 2 Test Flashcards

1
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known as the “top of the city” and refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center

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acropolis

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refers to the portion of ancient Greek city-state that served as a public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center

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agora

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3
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translated as “circle”

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kyklos

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4
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items found to be common among the people of Thea

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elaborately decorated homes
clay pipes connected toilets and baths to sewers
straw reinforced the walls of their homes

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5
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who is the legendary ruler of Crete’s ancient capital, Knossos

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Minos

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6
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Male virility and strength was associated with ____

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bulls

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7
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translated as “double ax”

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labrys

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8
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The palace of Minos was known in Greek times as the __________________

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House of Double Axes

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9
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who gave birth to the Minotaur that was the wife of Minos

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Queen Pasphae

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10
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____________ was the chief crafts person who constructed the hollow wooden cow to assist the queen in attracting the bull.

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Daedalus

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11
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____________, daughter of Minos provided Theseus with a weapon and thread to help kill the minotaur

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Ariadne

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12
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the ancient city of _____________ is a citadel city that depended on cyclopean masonry for its construction and was entered through a massive lion gate

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Mycenae

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13
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_________ is the author of the Iliad and the odyssey

A

Homer

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14
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___________ is considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while battling the Trojans

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Achilles

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15
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Achilles is the center of the _________ which focuses on his rage

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Iliad

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16
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Greek translation that means “virtue”

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arete

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17
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what does arete interpreted as

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reaching one’s highest potential

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18
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_________, son of King Troy, killed Patroclus which enraged Achilles

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Hector

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19
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___________ is best remembered as king of Troy during the action of the Iliad

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Priam

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20
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______________ was the wife of the Odysseus

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Penelope

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21
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___________, in his Theogony, the Birth of the gods, who first detailed the Greek pantheon

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Hesoid

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22
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where controlled north-south trade routed from early times

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Corinth

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23
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After Corinth built a towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers, it controlled the sea routes of the ____________

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east and west

23
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____________ was the home to the sanctuary of Apollo

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Delphi

24
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the row of columns that stand on raised platforms of an ancient Greek temple

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peristyle

25
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The __________ features scrolled capitols

A

Ionic Order

26
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what are the 3 different columns

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Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

27
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On the ___________________________, Sarpedon has just been killed.

A

Karter the Death of Sarpedon

28
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Who killed Sarpedon?

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Patroclus

29
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Who was carrying him off ________(the winged figure) and ________(death)

A

hypnos, thanatos

30
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who is the messenger god that looks on Sarpedon

A

Hermes

31
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_______________ instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BC

A

Kleisthones

32
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the term that became part of the Athenian political system and refers to small local areas comparable to precincts or wards in a modern city

A

demes

33
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during the battle of Marathon in 490 BC who ruled the Persians

A

Darius

34
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what is the centerpiece of the Athenian Acropolis

A

Parthenon

34
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The monumental entryway to the complex

A

Proplaia

34
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what is the bronze statue Polyclitus made, known as the spear beater

A

Doryphoros

34
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what was the Doryphoros demonstrated as

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the treatise on proportions of the human body

34
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the 92 metopes on the 4 sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and the 4 enemies:

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Trojans, Giants, Amazons, Centaurs

35
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Socrates was place on trial for

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subversive behavior
corrupting young men
introducing new gods

35
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the person that is a pre-socratic thinker that conceived an atomic theory in which everything is made up of small, indivisible particles and the empty space, or void, between them

A

Leucippus

36
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__________ is responsible for one of the most famous of all Greek dictums: “Man is the measure of all things”

A

Protagoras

37
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________________ specialized in writing comedies and the playwright for Lysteria

A

Aristophanes

37
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________________ identifies the elevated platform on which the actors performed

A

proscenium

37
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_____________ is the playwright for the Orsteia trilogy that includes events after Agamemnon’s return from the Trojan War

A

Aeschylus

38
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father to the east, the kingdom of the Ganges, Alexander’s next logical opponent, had a force of ___________

A

5,000 elephants

39
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the most important idea that Aristotle expressed in the Poetics is Catharsis, is ____________________ of the _________________

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cleansing purification, or purgation of the soul

40
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The term __________ refers to columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top.

A

entasis

41
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who is the Greek historian who wrote about the Persian wars?

A

Herodotus

42
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who ran 26 miles between marathon and Athens to deliver the word of the Greek victory

A

Phidippides

43
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a story that a culture assumes is true

A

myth

44
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the golden age of Greek art was

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480-430 BC

45
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causing an unparalleled level of excellence in art…

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architecture,
poetry,
drama,
philosophy,
government,
law,
logic,
history,
and mathematics.

46
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The human figure was the principal motif of Greek art. The Greeks were…

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skilled painters, we can judge the realistic detail of Greek painting by the figures that adorn their everyday pottery.

47
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what happened to the Parthenon?

A

a direct rocket hit destroyed its core

48
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the Parthenon was built without… it remained intact until…

A

mortar; 1687

49
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Greek statues were not the bleached white marble we assoc Classical sculpture. It was made with…

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colored encaustic, a mixture of powdered pigment and hot wax applied to hair, lips, eyes, and the nails of the figure.

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