Ancient Greece

Question 1

When n where did the Minoan civil begin?

Answer 1

In 3000 BC in the island of Crete

Question 2

What were the ppl called?

Answer 2

Minoans

Question 3

What geographical features of Crete differentiated Minoan civilization to other ancient civilization?

Answer 3

Crete’s lack of big rivers and presence of small valleys rather than river valleys set the Minoan civilization apart.

Question 4

How did the geographical features of Crete contribute to the defence of the Minoans?

Answer 4

The geographical features of Crete, such as being an island with no big rivers, made it hard for other people to attack the Minoans since they had no walls around their towns and palaces

Question 5

Where is the most famous palace in Crete?

Answer 5

the most famous one is in Knossos

Question 6

Where did the ordinary live?

Answer 6

They livedin villages and small towns

Question 7

What did they do for a living

Answer 7

Most were farmers. Some fishermen. The Minoans were clever craftsmen. They made pottery, bronze goods and jewellery.

Question 8

What did they trade?

Answer 8

They traded olive oil, wine and the things they made with them.

Question 9

Religion followed by Minoans?

Answer 9

The Minoans prayed to the Mother Goddess and to the Bull. Large houses had special places where ppl worshiped their god, ppl also used caves for worship.

Question 10

How did the Minoan civil end?

Answer 10

In about 1450 BC a volcano probably blew up and destroyed the land of Crete.

Question 11

Beginning of the Mycenaeans

Answer 11

In 2000 BC some Aryan ppl from the north made their home in Greece. They were fierce people with rough tools made of bronze and stone. They built small but strong towns with walls of huge stones to keep out enemies.

Question 12

What was the Mycenaean’s most important town?

Answer 12

Their most important town was Mycenae

Question 13

Where did some Mycenaeans leave Greece for?

Answer 13

They left Greece and made their homes in Italy, Asia Minor, and Cyprus

Question 14

How did the Minoans influence the influence the Greek civilization?

Answer 14

About 1435 BC, after the Minoan civil. has ended, the Mycenaeans conquered the island of Crete, but they copied the Minoan art, the metal goods and buildings

Question 15

Who were the Mycenaean’s biggest enemy?

Answer 15

Trojans

Question 16

What event triggered the Mycenaeans and Trojans war

Answer 16

The war was triggered even further when Paris stole Helen, the wife of the Greek king, Menelaus.

Question 17

when did the trojan war start?

Answer 17

1200 BC

Question 18

What was the huge wooden horse used for?

Answer 18

During the war the Greek soldiers hid inside the huge wooden horse, while the others pretended to sail away. The Trojan took the model horse inside the city and at night the soldiers came out of the model and opened the gates of Troy. The other Greek soldiers got involved after. The Trojans were defeated.

Question 19

Who were the Dorians?

Answer 19

In 1100 BC the Mycenaeans were defeated by another Aryan people called the Dorians. The Dorians came from the noth and settled in Greece

Question 20

Dark Age

Answer 20

After the defeat of Mycenaeans by the Dorians, the next four hundred years were known as the dark age.

Question 21

Golden Age

Answer 21

During the dark age the idea of minoans, mycenaeans and dorians mixed together which made the greek civil. of the the golden age