Classical greece - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

CSTU 101 CH. 3 Ancient Greece Popular Greek inventions - correct answer The crane and dice. Classical Ideal: Humanism - correct answer Confidence in human power and ingenuity. Classical Ideal: Fatalism - correct answer Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction. Minoan Culture - correct answer Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural creation. Development of pottery. Labyrinth and Minotaur. Mycenaean Culture - correct answer Warrior Civiliz...

Praxis 5004 - World History and Economics (2023/2024) Already Passed Paleolithic and Neolithic Periods Hunter-gatherer and agricultural revolution Mesopotamia (c. 3500-c. 2350 BCE) Formed at the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers - Invented writing, military expertise, city-states, Code of Hammurabi. Sumer constructed dikes and reservoirs. Invention of writing in 3500 BCE marks the beginning of civilization. Iraq Shatt Al - Arab - largest Date Palm forest Ancient Egypt (c. 2711-c. 1090 BCE) Influence...

What is the difference between a myth and a monomyth? - -A monomyth is a myth that is shared between many cultures, while a myth is a story particular to a culture. How does the visual art and architecture of Greece and Rome differ? - -Much of the sculpture and architecture in Greece was focused on honoring deities. Rome valvued deities, but also used art to glorify the Roman Empire What would have been a cultural exchange and diversity in the classical Period? - -The travelers along the s...

Civilization - Answer An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits. Foragers - Answer People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects. Cuneiform - Answer A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but...

PRAXIS II ENGLISH CONTENT KNOWLEDGE: AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% Homer Homeric or Heroic Period. The greatest of the ancient Greek epic poets and author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, works that lie at the beginning of the Western literary canon. Gorgias Greek sophist from Sicily who turned his back on true philosophy; believed that all statements were false and that everything was incomprehensible and unknowable Aesop Greek author of fables Plato Clas...

vexillology - ANSWER-The study of flags. Gothic - ANSWER-A architectural style from the Middle Ages. Catalonia - ANSWER-Unique section of Spain (different people). Belgium - ANSWER-A country made only for politics. It contains the two halves Flanders and Wallonia. medieval - ANSWER-Synonym for Middle Ages (476-1400). secular - ANSWER-Non-involved with religion. Babylonian Captivity - ANSWER-() period of time when popes lived in Avignon, France; which made them look like French ...

Homer composed the Iliad between what years? 750-700 BC 460-430BC 800-760 BC 440-400 BC 3 / 3 pts Question 2 Sign In What types of columns decorated the front of the Supreme Court? Ionic Doric Corinthian Decorative 3 / 3 pts Question 3 A Wealthy-German merchant turned archaeologist discovered Troy in Northern Turkey. Homer Schliemann Schlutz Adolphus 3 / 3 pts Question 4 When was Neo-classical architecture brought to America? 18th century 17th centu...

Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)() - Answer Mycenae takes over Crete, destroyed Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450. Early Dark Age(1250-900): - Answer -Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary decline. -Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over. -1250 marks Trojan war. Late Dark Age (900-750): - Answer -Population growth and new trade. -800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in Magna Graecia, S. Italy (Sicil...

CSTU 101 - Exam 1 (Liberty U)Culture - correct answer What we make of the world Western culture - correct answer A set of shared culture generally in Europe and related areas Humanities - correct answer What makes us human Epic - correct answer A long narrative recounting heroism, centered on the hero with a sense of national identity Golden Age of Athens (Greece) - correct answer • Persian Wars - Destruction of Athens by the Persians, followed eventually by Greek victory • Pe...

What was the Renaissance and what does it mean? - Renaissance means rebirth, the rediscovery of classical antiquity, the art of ancient Greece and Rome. Supposedly where is the origin of creative art? - Africa, The Makapansgat pebble (pebble with a human face) What does the western Calendar Revolve around? - The birth of Jesus Where were the earliest Cave paintings found? - Namibia, the apollo 11 cave What did the earliest cave paintings depict? - Exaggerated physical features of the human...