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Question 1

Did cuneiform signs stand for single letter sounds, or whole whole syllables?

Answer 1

Whole syllables.

Question 2

What type of writing did the inventors of the alphabet do?

Answer 2

Not just sacred texts and songs, but letters, contacts, and receipts.

Question 3

What type of people were the creators of the alphabet?

Answer 3

Merchants.

Question 4

What people did the inventors of the alphabet live close to?

Answer 4

The Jewish people.

Question 5

In which ports did they live?

Answer 5

The ports of Tyre and Sidon.

Question 6

What are The Phoenicians famous for inventing?

Answer 6

The alphabet.

Question 7

What did wild tribes trade with The Phoenicians?

Answer 7

Furs, and precious stones in exchange for tools, cooking pots, and colored cloth.

Question 8

What were The Phoenicians known for?

Answer 8

Their craftsmanship.

Question 9

What temple did The Phoenicians help construct?

Answer 9

Solomon’s.

Question 10

What was the most popular of the Phoenician goods?

Answer 10

Dyed cloth, especially the purple.

Question 11

What did many of the Phoenicians do on foreign shores?

Answer 11

Stayed on their trading posts and built towns.

Question 12

Where did the Phoenicians travel?

Answer 12

Africa, Spain, and southern Italy.

Question 13

Why were the Phoenicians welcomed everywhere they went?

Answer 13

The beautiful things they brought.

Question 14

How long ago did the Phoenicians invent the alphabet.

Answer 14

Three thousand years ago.

Question 15

How many beats to a line do hexameters have?

Answer 15

Six.

Question 16

What types of verses were chanted by Greek minstrels at feasts?

Answer 16

Hexameters.

Question 17

Who got all the credit for the famous Ancient Greek hexameters?

Answer 17

Homer.

Question 18

What was Schliemann occupation?

Answer 18

He was a businessman.

Question 19

When was Schliemann around?

Answer 19

More than two hundred years ago.

Question 20

What parts of Homers tales were true?

Answer 20

The drinking cups, weapons, buildings, ships, the princes who were at the same time shepherds, and the heroes who were also sea raiders.

Question 21

What was Schliemann famous for?

Answer 21

Dedicating his life’s work to unveiling the actual physical remains of the cities of Homer’s epic tales.

Question 22

What did Schliemann find at Mycenae?

Answer 22

Palaces, and the tombs of kings, armor, and shields.

Question 23

What ancient city did Schliemann find?

Answer 23

Troy.

Question 24

What happened to Troy?

Answer 24

It was destroyed by fire.

Question 25

What was odd about all the tombs and palaces in Troy?

Answer 25

There wasn't one inscription on them.

Question 26

What was found at Mycenae that helped them put a date on the artifacts they found?

Answer 26

A ring.

Question 27

What language was the inscription on the ring in?

Answer 27

Hieroglyphs.

Question 28

What time can the ring be dated back to?

Answer 28

1400 BC

Question 29

What was on the ring?

Answer 29

The name of an Egyptian King who had been the predecessor of Akhenaton.

Question 30

How would one describe Ancient Greece?

Answer 30

Not so much as a kingdom, but as a collection of small fortified cities, each with its own palace and king.

Question 31

Did sea raiding fall to the peasants or nobility in Ancient Greece?

Answer 31

The nobility.

Question 32

What were the majority of Ancient Greek citizens?

Answer 32

Shepherds and peasants.

Question 33

Why did history begin to progress much faster around the time of Ancient Greece?

Answer 33

Unlike the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Assyrians the Ancient Greek noblemen weren't interested in preserving the ways of their ancestors.

Question 34

what were some of the things Schliemann found in his excavations of Greek cities?

Answer 34

Fine vessels, daggers decorated with hunting scenes, golden shields and helmets, jewelry, and even the colorful paintings on the walls of the halls.

Question 35

Where were the beautiful things Schliemann found from?

Answer 35

Crete.

Question 36

What had the Cretans built around the time of King Hammurabi?

Answer 36

Splendid royal palaces, with innumerable rooms, staircases running up and down in all directions, great pillars, courtyards, corridors, and cellars.

Question 37

Why is Crete famous for labyrinths?

Answer 37

There was a myth about an evil Minotaur who lived in a labyrinth in Crete and ancient Greeks were made to send him human sacrifices every year.

Question 38

What monster is half man half bull?

Answer 38

The Minotaur.

Question 39

How many human sacrifices did the ancient Greeks have to send to Crete each year?

Answer 39

Fourteen. seven boys, and seven girls.

Question 40

What mattered most to Cretan artists?

Answer 40

Catching animals or people in rapid motion.

Question 41

Veritable?

Answer 41

Used as an intensifier, often to qualify a metaphor.

Question 42

Tyre?

Answer 42

In modern day Lebanon one of the oldest cities in the world dating back 4,000 years.

Question 43

Sidon?

Answer 43

The third largest city in Lebanon.

Question 44

Artisans?

Answer 44

a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.

Question 45

Mycenae?

Answer 45

archaeological site in Greece.

Question 46

Schliemann?

Answer 46

A pioneer in the field of archaeology (1822-1890)

Question 47

chieftain?

Answer 47

The leader of a people or clan.

Question 48

Sioux?

Answer 48

A tribe of Native American people with seven sub tribes.

Question 49

mohicans

Answer 49

Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe of what is now the upper Hudson River valley