Ancient Greece

Question 1

Scene 1: Minion Crete. Where and when did this take place?

Answer 1

220-1400 B.C, the isaland of Crete

Question 2

What was the first important European civilization after the flood?

Answer 2

Minion Crete

Question 3

What city built a palace based society?

Answer 3

Minion Crete

Question 4

What is a palace based society?

Answer 4

The general population clustered and built there houses around the palaces.

Question 5

Scene 2: Mycenaean civilization. Where and when did this take place.

Answer 5

1800-1000 B.C.
located on the Balkan and Peloponnesian peninsula

Question 6

What city had an economy based on raids and trades and what does mean in return?

Answer 6

Mycenaean civilization and in return this means a lot of interaction with Canaan Cyprus, Crete

Question 7

Scece 3: Greece’s dark age.
When was Greece’s dark age?

Answer 7

1200-800B.C

Question 8

what 3 things were brought about by Greece’s dark age

Answer 8

1. The loss of the ability to write
2. depopulation spiral
3. the loss of technology

Question 9

what city started the spread of Greek culture all over the Mediterranean?

Answer 9

The Mycenaean civilization

Question 10

what brought about Greece’s recovery from the dark age?

Answer 10

trade, innovation, and cultural interaction with other cities.

1. Iron metallurgy
   2.phoencian alphabet
2. creation of surplus

Question 11

scene 4: Archaic age

When was this and what was created during this time?

Answer 11

750-500 B.C.

The creation of the Greek Polus

Question 12

What is a Polis?

Answer 12

a city state that is fiercely independent form other states.

Question 13

Raw materials/wealth varied greatly form _______?

Answer 13

city state to city state

Question 14

Why was Greece’s city state unique?

Answer 14

because poor men had nearly the same rights as rich men.

Question 15

slaves comprised 1/3 of the population during which age?

Answer 15

The archaic age

Question 16

each city state reverenced a particular deity who was the city’s protector. For example…

Answer 16

Athens and Athena

Question 17

What city was the birth place of democracy and poetry ?

Answer 17

Athens

Question 18

Scene 5: Golden age.
when and what was another name for this age.

Answer 18

450 B.C.

Also known as the classical age

Question 19

What was the golden age (classical age) know for?

Answer 19

the flourish of philosophy, education

Question 20

who were the big three?

Answer 20

in this order

1. Sorates
2. plato
3. Aristotle

Question 21

what ended the golden age?

Answer 21

the Peloponnesian war

Question 22

where did the war take place and who was involved?

Answer 22

It was in Sparta against Sparta and Athens

this war went on for years and years and years

Question 23

who conquers the known world?

Answer 23

Alexander the great

Question 24

what was Hellenization Asia?

Answer 24

taking the Greek culture and spreading it with every nation Alexander the Great conquered and mixing it with there own cutlers

Question 25

scene 6: the Hellenistic age.

When did this take place and what took place?

Answer 25

300-30 B.C

Alexander the great died at 33 and his empire was broken up and each of his generals had control of a piece

Question 26

what was the biggest contribution the Greeks had?

Answer 26

the spread of Greek thinking is the most important thing we ger from ancient Greece.