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CLCV 115 Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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Time of Upper Paleolithic

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40,000-12,500 BC

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Time of Mesolithic

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12,500-8,500 BC

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Time of Neolithic

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8,500-3,000 BC

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Time of Bronze Age

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3,000-1,200 BC

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Time of Early Bronze Age

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3,000-2,000 BC

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Time of Middle Bronze Age

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2,000-1,600 BC

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Time of Late Bronze Age

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1,600-1,200 BC

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Time of Iron Age/Dark Age/Proto-Geometric

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1,200-900 BC

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Time of Geometric Period

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900-700 BC

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Time of Domestication of goats

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8,500 BC

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Time of walls of Jericho

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7,800 BC

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Time of invention of ceramic pottery

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6,500 BC

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Time of invention of the wheel

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4,500 BC

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Time of invention of writing

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3,000 BC

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Time of house of tiles destroyed

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2,250 BC

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Time of battle of Qadesh

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1,285 BC

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Time of Trojan War

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1,265 BC

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Time of collapse of Bronze Age

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1,200 BC

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Time of alphabet appearing in Greece

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735 BC

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20
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Time of Hesiod’s Theogony

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700 BC

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21
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What chronological period were Sumerians?

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Early Bronze

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What chronological period were Egyptians?

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Early Bronze

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What chronological period were Cycladic Islanders?

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Early Bronze

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What chronological period were Early Helladic Greeks?

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Early Bronze

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What chronological period were Babylonians?

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Middle Bronze

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What chronological period were Minoans?

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Middle Bronze

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What chronological period were Indo-Europeans (Hittites, Mycenaeans)

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Late Bronze

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What chronological period were Semites?

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Late Bronze

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What chronological period were Hesiod and Homer?

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Geometric

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30
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What cultures were Semitic?

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Babylonians, Phonecians, Ugaritians, Hebrews, Assyrians

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What cultures were Indo-European?

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Greeks, Romans, Hittites, Teutonic

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32
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What cultures are miscellaneous?

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Jericho, Catalhoyuk, Sumerians, Egyptians, Minoans, Sea peoples

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Paleolithic

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Old Stone age, humans were hunter-gatherers, worshiped quadrupeds/Great Goddess as appreciation for killing things with a soul for food

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Animism

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Worship of anything that has a spirit

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Great Goddess

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Paleolithic deity, symbol of fertility embodied by Venus figurines

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36
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Venus figurines

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Paleolithic carvings emphasizing female aspects of fertility

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37
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Anthropomoprhic

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Shaped like a human

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38
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Gynomorphic

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Having the shape of a woman or womb

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39
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Theriomorphic

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God in the form of animals

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40
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Bucrania

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Cow skills, Catalhoyuk shrines formed out of cow skulls

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41
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Etiological Myth

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Myths explaining the cause of various aspects of life

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42
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Aspect

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Roles held by divinities

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43
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Polytheism

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The worship of more than one god

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44
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Monotheism

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Worship of a single god

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45
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Parthenogenic

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Birth with no male partner, virgin birth

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46
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Variant

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Alternate versions of myths

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47
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Syncretism

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A blending of aspects from different religions into one faith

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48
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Personification

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Attribution of human characteristics or nature to a nonhuman thing

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49
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Millennium

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One thousand years

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50
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Eponym

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A person whose name is the source of the name of something

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51
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Teshub

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Storm god of the Hittites

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52
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Patronymic

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Name derived from a paternal ancestor (-id, -ides, -ids)

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Cuneiform

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System of writing using wedge-shaped symbols

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54
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Creators and place of Cuneiform

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Sumerians in Mesopotamia

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Linear A

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Undeciphered Minoan writing system in Crete

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Linear B

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Syllabic symbols, derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete, used in the Mycenaean palaces of the Late Bronze Age to write an early form of Greek

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57
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Achaeans

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Greeks, specifically northeastern Greece

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mythopoeic

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Relating to the making of myths

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Theogony

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Mythological description of the creation and origin of the gods

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Muses

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9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, sing to Hesiod and inspire Theogony

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Graces

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3 daughters of Zeus and Euronyme, represent the favor of the gods and beauty

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Chaos

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Nothingness, first creation of universe

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Gaia

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Earth, goddess of Earth, personification of Earth

64
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Tartarus

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Dark pit underneath the Underworld

65
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Eros

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Love, holds the universe together

66
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Cupid

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God of love, Eros, represents mirth and joy

67
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Aether

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Brightness, born of Night

68
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Ouranos

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Sky, father of Kronos, is castrated and genitals form Aphrodite

69
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Oceanus

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Titan, mythical fast-flowing river encircling the earth so swiftly that it carried the sun back to rise in the west

70
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Tethys

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Titan, produced 3,000 rivers and 3,000 oceanids, one of which is the Styx

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Mnemosyne

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Titan, Memory

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Kronos

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Titan, father of Zeus, overthrows Ouranos

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Rhea

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Wife of Kronos, mother of Zeus

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Themis

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Titan of justice

75
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Cyclopes

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Birthed by Gaia, produce thunderbolts for Zeus

76
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Hundred-Handeds

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Birthed by Gaia,

77
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Aphrodite

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Goddess of love, forms out of sea foam from Ouranos’ genitals

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Erinyes

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Furies, goddesses of vengeance, formed by Ouranos’ blood hitting the Earth

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Pontus

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Sea god

79
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Moirai

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Three fates

80
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Clotho

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Fate spinning the thread of life

81
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Lachesis

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Fate that measures out the thread, determining the length of life

82
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Atropos

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Fate who cuts the thread of life, destiny

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Hesperides

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Daughters of night, guard sacred tree in the garden of Hesperides, the tree of life

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Location of the Garden of Hesperides

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Northwestern Africa, the “ends of the earth” for the Greeks

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Ate

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blindness, the folly that happens between the time you do something wrong and the time you get caught

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Nemesis

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Goddess of revenge

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Nereids

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Daughters of sea god Neris

88
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Oceanids

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Nymphs of rivers and streams of the Earth

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Ceto

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Sea monster, also name for scientific class for whales

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Iris

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Messenger of Olympian gods during Titanochamy

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Helios

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God of the sun

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Selene

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Goddess of the moon

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Eos

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Goddess of the dawn

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Boreas

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North wind

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Zephyr

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West wind

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Notos

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South wind

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Zeus

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Son of Kronos, raised in a cave on Crete

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Styx

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Mythical river in the Underworld

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Power, force

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Abstract concept created by Hesiod, aid Zeus in his fight against Kronos

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Nike

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Victory goddess, often shown winged and flying

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Mt. Ditke

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Zeus’ hiding place

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Titanomachy

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Battle of Titans and Kronos against Zeus and his allies

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Omphalos

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Stone Kronos swallowed in place of Zeus, later placed by Zeus in the center of the Earth at Delphi

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Parnassus

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Mountain sacred to arts and literature

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Castalian Spring

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Spring at Delphi

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Ishtar

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Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, war, multiple aspects

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Shamash

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Sumerian sun god

108
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Ba’al

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Major divinity of Ugarit and Phonecian people, “Lord”

109
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Tiamat

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Defeated by Marduk in Enuma Elish

110
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Anu

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Sky god for Sumerians, babylonians, and hittites,

111
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Marduk

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Babylonian hero of Enuma Elish, head of Babylonian pantheon

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Enuma Elish

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Babylonian creation myth

113
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Genesis

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Catholic creation story

114
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Kumarbi Myth

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Hittite Creation myth

115
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Marija Gimbutas

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Contributed to Kurgan Hypothesis, studied Neolithic cultures

116
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Kurgan Hypothesis

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Helped discover the origins of Indo-European language

117
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George Smith

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Translator of cuneiform tablets

118
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James G. Frazer

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Social anthropologist influential in early studies of ancient mythology, discovery of myths in lesser known cultures

119
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Iapetos

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Titan, god of mortality

120
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Prometheus

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Punished by Zeus for giving fire to humanity, crafted humanity out of clay

121
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Epimetheus

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Foolish brother of Prometheus

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Atlas

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Holds up the sky for challenging Zeus

123
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Pandora

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Burdensome first woman, opened box full of the struggles of mankind

124
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Deucalion

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Son of Prometheus, survived a flood sent by Zeus to punish human wickedness; they were then instructed to throw stones over their shoulders and these turned into humans to repopulate the world.

125
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Pyrrha

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wife of Deucalion, a survivor of the flood

126
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Mt. Parnassus

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Location of Delphi, where Deucalion and Pyrrha landed after the flood

127
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Hellen

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First man made after Deucalion threw stones, named for Helladic greeks

128
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Ion

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Second man made after throwing of stones, named for Ionian greeks

129
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Shem

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Hebrew for “name”, Noah’s firstborn son

130
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Ham

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Noah’s rebellious son

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Mesolithic

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Middle Stone Age; humans acquired the skills to fish, lived in huts rather than caves, no agriculture

132
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Neolithic

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New stone age, farmers, humans can have bigger cities because of agriculture

133
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What period were grains harvested?

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Neolithic

134
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Stone tower developed to protect and store grains

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Tower of Jericho

135
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Sumerian temple made out of mud bricks

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Ziggurat

136
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River Egyptian spirits crossed to get to the land of the dead

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Nile

137
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Type of Greeks that live on the mainland

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Helladic

138
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Type of Greeks living on Cycladic islands

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Cycladic

139
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House where sauceboats were displayed, which later go out of style and we see Greek ceramics

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House of Tiles

140
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Worshiped some form of the Great Goddess, language is untranslated, grew grapes and olives, worshipped in caves

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Minoans of Crete

141
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Ugarit temple of Ba’al, invented the alphabet,

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Phonecians

142
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Lion gate, great city of Mycenae, drew inspiration from Egyptain pyramids

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Mycaneans

143
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Battle of Qadesh and trojan war caused collapse of Bronze Age and:

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Migration of many peoples and Iron Age

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