Bronze Age Greece (Minoan and Mycenaean Society)

Question 1

Cycladic Islands-

Answer 1

-a group of Greek islands, southeast of the mainland in the Aegean Sea.
-It centers on uninhabited Delos,
>the birthplace of Apollo,
-home to some of Greece’s most important archaeological ruins.

Question 2

Cyclades-

Answer 2

-earliest bronze age civilization

Question 3

Cyprus-

Answer 3

-an island nation in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. traded copper to make bronze

Question 4

Crete-

Answer 4

-the home of Minoan civilizations

Question 5

Minoans-

Answer 5

• live on Crete
• built the Knossos
• king was Minos
• destroyed by a volcano and the surviving people were wiped out by the mycenaeans

Question 6

Archaeological data from Crete-

Answer 6

-Knossos
-they used Fresca as pigment for painting so we have
an idea of how the buildings looked.

Question 7

Linear A-

Answer 7

• Minoan script

- has not been deciphered yet

Question 8

Linear B-

Answer 8

• mycenaean script which was

- deciphered in the 1950’s by Michael Ventris

Question 9

Heinrich Schliemann-

Answer 9

-Eccentric German Millionaire who advocated the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavation of Hisarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns.

Question 10

Troy-

Answer 10

• portrayed as a powerful kingdom of the Heroic Age,
• mythic era when monsters roamed the earth and gods interacted directly with humans
• was said to have ruled the Troad until the Trojan War led to its complete destruction at the hands of the Greeks.

Question 11

Mycenae-

Answer 11

• one of the major centers of Greek civilization
• a military stronghold on the mainland
• dominated much of southern Greece, Crete, the Cyclades and parts of southwest Anatolia.

Question 12

Greek colonization-

Answer 12

-organized colonial expansion by the Archaic Greeks into the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea in the 8th–6th centuries BC.

Question 13

Asia Minor-

Answer 13

• where the continents of Asia and Europe meet:
• Thrace,
• Bithynia,
• Paphlagonia,
• Aeloia,
• Phrygia,
• Galatia,
• Pontus,
• Armenia,
• Urartu,
• Assyria,
• Cilicia,
• Pamphylia,
• Lycia,
• Pisidia,
• Lycaonia,
• Caria,
• Mysia,
• Ionia,
• Lydia,
• Troy.
• Het