Midterm Flashcards
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True or false: The ancient Egyptians, believe that, if a persons body was preserved on earth, the soul would have eternal life in the kingdom of Osiris they’re God
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True
2
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True or false: The Egyptians developed an embalming method, known as mummification
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True
3
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True or false: It took 40 days to mummify a body
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False, 70
4
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True false: Only wealthy Egyptians were buried, naked in shallow graves
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False
5
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True or false: At the funeral, the priest chanted prayers from the book of the dead
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True
6
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True or false: A person’s importance was judged by the number of mourners at the funeral
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True
7
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The center of intelligence
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Heart
8
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Remove to prevent decay
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Internal organs
9
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Special salt to prevent a body from drying out
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Natron
10
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Stone coffin
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Sarcophagus
11
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Brought back the senses of the deceased
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Opening of the mouth ceremony
12
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Made from ground up mummy
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Medicine and brown paint
13
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God of mummification
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Anubis
14
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Worn by Anubis
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Jackal Mask
15
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Social class: servants
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Lower
16
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Social class: vizier
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Upper
17
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Social class: priest
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Upper
18
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Social class: scribes
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Upper
19
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True or false: In the 19th century thousands of cat mummies were shipped from Egypt to England, where they were turned into fertilizer
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True
20
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Mummies were used for or to make
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Brown paint, medicine, fuel
21
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True or false: You could be put to death in ancient Egypt if you killed a cat
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True
22
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People settled along the Nile river instead of elsewhere in Egypt, because other areas were
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Too dry
23
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The majority of people in Egypt were
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Peasants and slaves
24
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Egyptians, who lived a good life, thought that after death they would
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Continue living in the other world
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The people who kept records and wrote letters were called
Scribes
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The Nile river was very important to the early Egyptians, because it was used by the people for
Irrigation
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A machine that lifted water out of the Nile to irrigate or water the lands
Shadoof
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A belief in many gods
Polytheism
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A ruling family of Egypt led by a pharaoh
Dynasty
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Poor farmers, who paid rent and taxes with a share of their crops
Peasants
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The sun, god of ancient Egypt
Re
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A series of picture symbols used to write
Hieroglyphics
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Nickname for Egypt
Gift of the Nile
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Contained prayers that people studied so they could safely reach the other world
Book of the dead
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True or false: the three seasons in Egypt were planting, pyramid building, and harvesting
False
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True or false: the Egyptians developed a calendar with 365 days
True
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How many months of the year were fields, covered by flood waters from the Nile
Three
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It was made from a plant that grew along the Nile
Papyrus
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Egyptians thought sickness was caused by
Gods
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Egyptian doctors were the first to use
Splints and bandages
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Boys were encouraged to steal. If they were caught stealing, why were they punished?
For getting caught
42
True or false: Athens was named after the Greek God Athena.
True
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Children were considered adults at the age of what?
13
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True or false: The Acropolis was built so people could retreat when the city of Athens was attacked.
True
45
Spartan boys were raised by their mothers until they were what age?
7
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They were only eaten at or on special occasions and festivals
Pork and beef
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Why did Spartans wear crimson or red tunics?
So their bloody wounds in battle wouldn’t show
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The Agora was a place to meet and discuss ideas on what?
Philosophy and government
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True or false: The biggest disgrace a soldier could suffer was to lose his aspis.
True
50
In an Agoge, Spartan boys were trained to
Read write and train to fight
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True or false: When a child was born a father was always happy and would treat all of his children well.
False
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True or false: Most chitins were made of linen and silk.
False
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True or false: The term "Spartan" is used to describe something simple or without comfort.
True
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True or false: The largest theater in Athens was the Theater of Dionysus. He was the God of Theater.
False
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This building was dedicated to the goddess Athena
Parthenon
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A kylix had what at the bottom as the Greek's drank?
A picture
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This was not ia Greek invention
Arch
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True or false: A symposuim was a dinner party that included men, woman, but no children.
False
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Why did Greek women wear their hair long?
So they would not be confused with slave women
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True or false: The two most popular materials for clothes in ancient Greece were wool and linen.
True
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The Greeks sometimes used this or these to wipe their hands
Bread
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They were common fruits in Greece
Apples figs and grapes
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The most popular type of jewelry in Greece was
Pins
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True or false: Sometimes Greeks dyed their clothing using plants and lipstick.
False
65
They were the lowest class of people in Greece
Slave women
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True or false: The Greeks used sugar and wine to sweeten their desserts.
False
67
True or false: Women were considered second class citizens to men.
False
68
Spartan Black Soup was made with salt, vinegar and what?
Pigs blood
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Subject of instruction
Mathematics
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Study of life
Biology
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Study of maps
Cartography
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Move water up a hill
Archimedes Screw
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Zoology
Aristotle
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First female mathematician
Hypatia
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When a woman gave birth of a daughter
The baby girl was sometimes thrown out with the trash or They gave the baby away to become a slave
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True or false: Spartan women had more rights than women in Athens.
True
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The Greeks drank
Watered down wine kykeon and water barley and herbs
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The period of time before 3,000 B.C. is known as what?
Prehistory
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Which Stone Age : they lived in small groups
Old
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Which Stone Age : man formed the first government and religion
New
81
Which Stone Age : fire is used for cooking
Old
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Which Stone Age : the invention of the canoe
Middle
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Which Stone Age : man develops spoken language
Old
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Which Stone Age : man grows crops from seed
New
85
A small shovel archaeologist use to dig
Trowel
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The method used to determine the age of some living thing that has died
Carbon dating
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The society developed by a group of people
Civilization
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The behaviors, beliefs, arts, of a particular group of people
Culture
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Location where a dig is taking place
Site
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Cuts made in the earth to determine the size of an archaeological site.
Trial trenches
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An item from the past
Relic
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True or false: The period of recorded history began in 2,000 B.C.
False
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True or false: People bought and sold goods through a system called barter in the old stoneage.
False
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True or false: Archaeologists and anthropologists have learned about prehistoric man by studying diaries and old books and newspapers.
False
95
True or false: The very first weapons were poison darts and bows and arrows.
False
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True or false: It is believed that early man crossed a land bridge from Asia to North America.
True
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Another name for a buffalo
Bison
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Prehistoric structure made of huge stones
Stonehenge
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Volcanic ash used to make weapons
Obsidian
100
A blend of copper and tin
Bronze
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One of the most important contributions of the Mesolitic period was what?
Fishing and a form of transportation
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This was not a contribution in the Neolithic period
Bows and arrows
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Neanderthal, Java and Cro-Magnon were types of man in the ______________ age
Paleolithic and old
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Religions first came to be because
Man did not understand why droughts, famines, floods and plagues happened
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As settlements grew, man was able to do what?
Form governments barter and become potters and weavers
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Mesopotamia is located on which continent?
Asia
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They kept written records for the Sumerians
Scribes
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It was against the laws to tax widows and __________
Orphans
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If these people were injured the fine was very low
Slaves
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The Sumerians invented the
Plow and arch
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The world's first civilization began in southern Mesopotamia at a place called
Sumer
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True or false; The Sumerians worshipped only one God
False
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True or false: All chidren were allowed to attend school.
False
114
True or false: A ziggurat supported heavy walls over doorways.
False
115
True or false: Most of the people learned a living from manufacturing and trade.
False
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True or false: The name Mesopotamia means land betweeen the rivers.
True
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There are ___ Symbols in Sumerian writing
600
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A large temple
Ziggurat
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The number of city-states in Mesopotamia
12
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The number of social classes in Mesopotamia
3
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The name given to the writing in Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
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Mesopotamian afterlife
Netherworld
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Farmers were in the ______ social class
3rd
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The nobles were in the _________ social class
1st
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The Priests were in the ________ social class
1st
126
Merchants were in the ________ social class.
2nd
127
Little was known about what caused illness and disease. Medical problems were believed to be the work of
Demons
128
The greatest city in Mesopotamia was Babylon. Babylon means
Gate of the god
129
Priests were responsible for
Directing worship governed the city and taught school
130
A freedman was_____
A slave was that was freed
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True or false: Ziggurats were built in each city to please the Gods.
True
132
True or false: The Sumerians were the first people on earth to invent a system of writing.
True
133
True or false: The Sumerians invented a vehicle with wheels
True
134
True or false: The Sumerians invented democracy, where important decisions were made by free adult men.
True
135
True or false: Writing tablets were made of bricks.
False
136
who was Harry Burton
a photographer
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who was lord carnarvon
paid for tuts excavation
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who was howard carter
discovered tuts tomb
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who was theodore davis
an archaeologist
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who was akhenaten
the pharaoh before tut
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who was ramesses vi
his tomb was close to tuts
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who was ay
he became pharaoh after tut
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who was ankhesenamun
wife of king tut
144
to prepare a body for burial
embalming
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a large and elaborate cemetery
necropolis
146
a salve or ointment with expensive perfume added
unguents
147
small statues that became the servants to the dead person in the afterlife
shawabty
148
sodium mineral with drying affect
natron
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what happened to howard carters canary
it got killed by a cobra
150
canpopic jars contain__
internal organs of a body
151
what are similar to pectorals
amulets and unguents
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true or false: amulets were stone carved to resemble beatles
faalse
153
who was related to king tut
akhenaten and akhesenamum
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only women blessed by the mother goddess were permitted to do what
have children
155
in addition to a good food supply the minoans had an abundance of
timber and wool
156
what did the architect give ariadne a
magic ball of golden thread
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who was the agean see named for
king ageaus
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who did ariadne marry
dionysus
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who was king minos
the ruler of crete
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what did hercules do
killed a mad bull
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who was helios
the sun god
162
who was posiedon
the king of the sea
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who was king ageaus
father of theseus
164
who was dionysus
god of wwine
165
island where ariadne was left
naxos
166
the home of ariadne
athens
167
where the gods lived
mount olympis
168
location of an elaborate palace
knossos
169
an island in greece
crete
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true or false: Hercules was jealous of his brother Zeus, and made the queen bear a hideous child, half man and half bull
false
171
true or false:Because the son of King Minos was killed, the Athenians had to send 14 young men and woman to crete every year to be eaten by the Minotaur
true
172
true or false:On his way back to Athens, Theseus forgot to change the sails from white to black
false
173
true or false:Arthur Evans was an archaeologist who found evidence of the palace in Knossos
true
174
minoan writing
linear a
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covered doors and windows
parchment
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painting on damp plaster
frescoes
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island south of greece
crete
178
name given to the palace at knossos
house of the double axe
179
Continent where Greece is located
europe
180
Sea west of Greece
ionian
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Sea east of Greece
aegean
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Sea south of Greece
mediterranian
183
Island in southern Greece
crete
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true or false:The first Olympics had only two events, including a foot race.
false
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true or false:Women and slaves were not permitted to participate or view the Olympics.
true
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true or false:According to the Greeks, ghosts enjoyed watching Olympic events.
true
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true or false:The Pancratium had no weight or size restrictions.
false
