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Ancient Aegean Flashcards

1
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period

A

bronze age

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Geography

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Aegean Sea, Asia Minor, Levant, Crete, Cyclades, Peloponnese

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Cultures

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Cycladic, Trojan, Minoan, Mycenaean, Indo-European, Sea-Peoples

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labryinth

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a maze-like structure

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a maze-like structure

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labryinth

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megaron

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the great hall (show off how wealthy you are)

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the great hall (show off how wealthy you are)

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megaron

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cyclopean

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type of masonry made with massive irregular blocks

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type of masonry made with massive irregular blocks

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cyclopean

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tholos

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A type of funerary structure; constructed from a stone-reinforced hollowed out hill

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A type of funerary structure; constructed from a stone-reinforced hollowed out hill

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tholos

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Minos

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Legendary king of Crete; commissioned the construction of the Labyrinth of the Minotaur.

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Legendary king of Crete; commissioned the construction of the Labyrinth of the Minotaur.

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Minos

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Minotaur

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a monster with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull

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a monster with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull

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Minotaur

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Linear A

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Minoan writing

we can’t read it

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Minoan writing

we can’t read it

A

Linear A

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Linear B

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Mycenaean writing

we can read some of it

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Mycenaean writing

we can read some of it

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Linear B

20
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Homer

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Legendary Greek bard, credited with authoring the Iliad and Odyssey.

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Legendary Greek bard, credited with authoring the Iliad and Odyssey.

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Homer

22
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Illiad & Odyssey

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Epic written by Homer

Odysseus is the protagonist (king of Ithaca)

23
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Epic written by Homer

A

Illiad & Odyssey

24
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Myth & Legend

A

I guess Illiad & Odyssey

Made people assume there was a bronze age civilization here

25
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History & Archaeology

A

Illiad

great civilizations: Schliemann found Troy, Evans found the labyrinth

26
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The “Great Catastrophe”

A

volcanic explosion, poisoning everything
Great Catastrophe happened 200 years later
possibly from lack of resources (fighting for what little there was and dying from lack of resources)
lead to population shift
“Greek Dark Age”

27
Q

Minoans

A

Crete
Arthur Evan rediscovered the nation
little known about them: trade economy
what we think: matriarchal, egalitarian society
totally guessing and totally wrong: chthonic pantheon, peaceful

28
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Mycenaeans

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conquerors, took over Minoans (diminished at this point)
Schliemann rediscovers them
we know: Patriarchal, conquest economy, hierarchical society, war-like
think:celestial pantheon

29
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Comparing Minoans and Mycenaeans

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Vincent Scully polarized the Minoans and Mycenaeans. If Mycenaeans had one trait, the Minoans had the opposite of it. That was straight up wrong.

ARTH 2710 (10 decks)

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