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Early Ancient Greek Civilizations Flashcards

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1400-1100

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Mycenaean Civilization

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3000-1400

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Minoan civilization

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1100

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Dorian Invasion

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2800-1050

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Bronze Age

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Frescoe

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Paintings done on walls when plaster was still wet

Minoan Art

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Protogeometric Pottery

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Degenerate form, lifeless designs

Used after Dorian Invasion

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Geometric Pottery

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Repeating patterns, Greek-Key and meander

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Black figure

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6th Century
Black figures on red background
Scenes of mythology

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Red Figure

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5th and 4th Centuries
Red figures on a black background
Scenes from life of times

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Toreutics

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Metal working

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Penethea

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Golden Age

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How to make Bronze?

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Blend of tin and copper

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2400

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Cretan civilization flourishes

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Cretan resources

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Wool and oil

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Cretan palaces

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KNOSSUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phaetus, Mallia, Crossus, and Gartyn too

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Thalassocrocy

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Rule of the sea

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Cretan King

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Minos

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Symbols for Cretan Monarchy

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Labrys, Double Axe, Fleur-de-lis

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1900

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Earthquakes destroy Cretan palaces

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1600

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Everything in Crete is rebuilt

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What did Crete have that was not equaled until the Victorian Age?

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Plumbing

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21
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Daedalus

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Architect of the Labyrinth

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Labyrinth

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Where Minotaur was kept

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1400

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Cretan palaces destroyed by Mycenaean Invaders

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24
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1287

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Battle of Cadesh

Between Egyptians and Hittites

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c. 1500

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Eruption of Thera

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Linear B

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Inventory lists

Deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick

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c. 1250

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Final destruction at Knossus

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28
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Synoikismos

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Closest bindings of communities

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29
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Chief entertainment of Crete

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Bull fighting

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30
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Religion

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NatureNatureNatureNatureNatureNatureNatureNatureNatureNature

NO OLYMPIAN GODS

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Instead of temples, Crete had-

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Velchanos

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Crete’s Zeus

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1900 AD

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Sir Arthur Evans unearths Knossus

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What connects Athens to Crete?

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Theseus and the Minotaur

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Rhyton

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A drinking vessel in the forms of horns

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Pelasgians

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People of the sea

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Hellenes

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Greeks’ name for themselves

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Hellas

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Barbarian

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Anyone who did not speak Greek

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Helladic

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All of Greek history before the Dorian Invasion

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Hellenic

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All of Greek history from the Dorian Invasion to the death of Alexander the Great

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Polis

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City-states

Rise in 8th century

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Acropolis

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Fortified hill

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Isthmus Wall

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Wall built across the isthmus of Corinth by the Mycenaeans

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Magna Graecia

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Rhetoric

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Science of rhetoric

Originated in Athens and Sicily

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Ionians

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Lived around Attica

Athenians

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Aeolians

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Lived around Thessaly and Boeotia

Thebans

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Dorians

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Occupied most of the Peloponnese

Spartans

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Achaeans

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Mingled their blood with Pelasgo-Mycenaeans
Was ruling class in 1600s & 1300s
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Where were the Mycenaean palaces?

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Mycenae and Tiryns

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Megron

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Large hall or reception room

53
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When did Mycenaeans become the dominant people on the Greek Mainland?

54
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What was built leading into Mycenae?

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Lions Gate

55
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1879 AD

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Heinrich Schliemann unearths Troy

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1876 AD

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Heinrich Schliemann unearths Mycenae

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Schliemann found-

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Lion’s Gate, Treasury of Atreus, Tomb of Clytemnestra, & Face of Agamemnon

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1283

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Pelops arrives in Elis

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1261

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Hercules is born

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1225

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Unification of Attica
Theseus becomes King of Athens
Oedipus becomes King of Thebes

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1209

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Hercules dies

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1582

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Cecrops founded Athens

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1313

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Cadmus founded Thebes

64
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1192-1183

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Trojan War

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Who calculated the fall of Troy as 1183?

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Eratosthenes

66
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What caused the Trojan War?

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The Greeks wanted to expand their trade

67
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Homer

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c. 850
From Chios
Called “The Poet”
Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

68
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What weapons did the Dorian Invaders use?

69
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What was the main factor that spread the Greek Civilization?

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Colonization

70
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Where did the Dorians establish their capital?

71
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What is the only area of the Peloponnesus not conquered by the Dorians?

72
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What people were reduced to slavery by the Dorians?

73
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Archimedes

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Born in Syracuse

Built war engines for Heiron

74
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1st Greek colony in Italy

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Cyme(Cumae)

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Pythagoras

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Mathematician

“Love of wisdom”, 703

76
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734

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Founding of Corcyra

77
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Cleruchy

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Lot holders

78
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Lelantine War

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First major conflict in Greek History
8th century
Struggle between Chalcis and Eretria

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