CLAS 1P91 MIDTERM Exam 2023
[Brock University]
When was the Bronze Age? Correct Answer BCE
When was the Dark Age? Correct Answer 1100-750 BC
When was the Archaic Period? Correct Answer 750-490 BCE
When was the classical period? Correct Answer 490-323 BCE
When was the Hellenistic period? Corr...
CLAS 1P91 MIDTERM Exam 2023
[Brock University]
When was the Bronze Age? Correct Answer 3000-1100 BCE
When was the Dark Age? Correct Answer 1100-750 BC
When was the Archaic Period? Correct Answer 750-490 BCE
When was the classical period? Correct Answer 490-323 BCE
When was the Hellenistic period? Correct Answer 323-30 BCE
What is the Mediterranean Triad Correct Answer Wheat, Vine, Olive
What is the Pnyx? Correct Answer meeting place of the Athenian democratic
assembly
What was the earliest Ancient Greek civilization Correct Answer The Minoans.
Where Ancient Greek Myth occurred
Who was King Minos' Father Correct Answer Zeus.
What did King Minos do? Correct Answer He had over-riding control of the
Aegean Sea, governed the Cycladic islands and was the first to colonize most of
them. (Thucydides I,4)
True or False: King Minos eliminated Piracy Correct Answer True. He did so as
far as possible so more revenue would come to him (Thucydides I,4)
what is Knossos? Correct Answer Minoan capital city on Crete. The Palace of
King Minos
Who excavated Knossos? Correct Answer Sir Arthur Evans in 1900.
Rediscovered a lost
civilization and called it Minoan, after the legendary King Minos
What was Minoan Thalassocracy Correct Answer Rule by the sea. King Minos
was the first Person to Aquire a fleet.
Where was the Minoan civilization located? Correct Answer Island of Crete
What is Linear A Correct Answer The Minoan Writing Language, has not been
deciphered
What is Linear B Correct Answer a Mycenaean script! found at Knossos AFTER
destructions
What Year were Minoan palaces except Knossos are destroyed Correct Answer
ca. 1450 BCE
What caused Minoan Crete's destruction Correct Answer The official cause is
unknown but suspected to be a volcanic eruptions, a tidal wave, the Knossians or
the Mycenaeans.
Who were the Mycenaeans? Correct Answer Similar to the Minoans, the
Mycenaeans appeared to be mythological civilizations. (ca. 1600 to 1100 BCE)
Who is Heinrich Schliemann? Correct Answer archeologist who proved some of
the Trojan War story to be true. Excavated troy In 1870. Excavated Mycenae 1876.
Who deciphered Linear B? Correct Answer Michael Ventris in 1952
What Were Tools tombs? Correct Answer monumental tombs that imply strong
hierarchy
What is a megaron? Correct Answer a Mycenaean king's throne room with central
hearth
What is a wanax? Correct Answer Mycenaean king
Cyclopean Fortifications Correct Answer Had secret access to water supplies.
Ancient Greeks Myth depicts them built by cyclops'
When did the Mycenaean civilization collapse? Correct Answer 1200 bc, shortly
after the Trojan War. Cause could have been External invasion, internal revolution,
or Environmental factors
Mycenaean Trade Correct Answer From northern europe to afghanistan
Militaristic (weapons and armour)
Panhellenic Correct Answer The sense of cultural identity that all Greeks felt in
common with each other.
Who were the Sea Peoples? Correct Answer They were a group of people of
unknown identity who raided Egypt and empires along the east side of the
Mediterranean Sea between 1250 and 1150 B.C.E. During the collapse of the
Bronze Age
When did the revival begin Correct Answer 10th cen BCE
What is Lefkandi Correct Answer a coastal village on the island of Euboea
Heröon Correct Answer Monumental apsidal building at Lefkandi that was used
as a burial site.
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