Midterm 1 info Flashcards
(41 cards)
Where do Greeks live and what did they speak?
1) Aegean Sea
2) Ancient Greek
Where did Roman’s life and what did they speak?
1) Mediterranian Sea
2) Romans adopted Greek ideology
What is the Knossos? and who build it?
1) A palace
2) Minoan
Knossos characteristics and who build it (4)
Minoan
1) Construction and Decoration
2) Lightwells
3) Labyrinthine
4) Central Courtyard
Knossos - Labyrinthine
the Labyrinth was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos
Knossos - Central Courtyard
Used for parties and central area for major event/ ruler to show off
Mycenean Palace Characteristics (4)
1) Palace / Citadel - smaller
2) Defensible position
3) Central Hall
Mycenaean Palace - Defensible position
Cyclopean Mansory (giant stone wall)
Mycenaean Palace - Central Courtyard
1) Megatron - rather than the courtyard (Minoan)
Mycenaean Palace - Fresco
Painting from Pylos
How were Mycenaean perceived?
Warriors due to Dendra armor
What were the sources of the Minioan?
Minion from Knossos
What were the Mycenaean source? (2)
1) Linear B tablets from Pylos
2) Claw drawn by sharp object
a. alluded to the economy and war
b. Fire destroyed most evidence, clay war hardened
Reason for Mycenean civilization: Causes? (2)
1) Dorian invasion - settlement did not become different
2) Mix of elements - Internal uprising, Natural disaster, Economic disaster
What was the result of the Mycenean civilization? (1050-750BC)
Greek dark age (1050-750BC)
What were the result of the Greek dark age? (5)
1) Loss of literarcy and art (crude)
2) End of monumental building
3) Less trade
4) Smaller & poorer settlement
5) Some echoes of Minioan/ Mycenaean civilization perserved in Greek MYTH / traditional language
Theseus slaying the Minataur
vase from Athens, c.460BC
During the Dark Age what notible happens to the tools and material
Iron Age - 950BC
When was the Greek Revival?
900-750BC
Greek Revival - Two causes to art
1) Sub-Mycenaean Pottery - Asymetrical
2) Geometry Pottery - Circle patterns
Greek Revival - Greek alphabet time and significance?
1) 800BC
2) Signs for vowels
Greek Revival (Late Dark Age) - Phoenicians
Greek alphabet derived from an alphabet of Phoenicians (Syria/Lebanon)
Archaic Period - Timeframe
750-500BC
Archaic Period (5) Main Development
1) Hoplite Warfare
2) Increase Literacy
3) The shift from aristocratic values to communal values
4) Polis - System
5) Colonization