CLA210 Exam 1 Questions and Answers
Myth
Traditional story about supernatural forces that explains early beliefs
Major Elements of Myth
A traditional story with collective importance
Has a supernatural or liminal (threshold) character
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CLA210 Exam 1 Questions and Answers
Myth - answer Traditional story about supernatural forces that explains early beliefs
Major Elements of Myth - answer A traditional story with collective importance
Has a supernatural or liminal (threshold) character
Universal Symbols - answer Seasonal change/ death-rebirth
Family strife
Divine Myth - answer Stories about gods (aetiology)
Legend - answer Stories about human heroes, semi-historical setting
Folk Tales - answer About ordinary people, teach behavior, not meant to be true
Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BC) - answer Mycenae becomes Greek area
powerhouse and other small kingdoms emerge
1490-1200 BC: Mycenae takes over Crete, destroy the Knossos and become central
power
1250 BC: Trojan War
Early Dark/ Iron Age (1200-900 BC) - answer 1200-1050 BC: Mycenae destroyed,
cultural decline
ca. 1000 BC: mainland Greeks resettle to Ionia as Dorians take over the mainland
Late Dark Age (900-750 BC) - answer 776 BC: First Olympics
800 BC: Greek alphabet
Rapid growth developments
753 BC: Romulus and Remus
Archaic Period (750-480 BC) - answer Rise of autonomous city-states
449 BC: Persian conflict when Ionian Greeks rebel
Xerxes driven from Greece
510 BC: End of monarchy and beginning of Roman republic
Classical Period (480-323 BC) - answer Rise of culture and literature: Socrates,
Plato, etc.
Roman republic grows
Hellenistic Period (323-30 BC) - answer Greece torn by internal conflicts after
Alexander the Great died, Rome uses Greece as base of operation for Eastern
campaigns, Greeks adopt Roman Culture
264-146 BC: Pumic Wars
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