Greece

Question 1

What was the timespan of the ancient age?

Answer 1

3,000 BC to 476 AD

Question 2

What does BC/E stand for?

Answer 2

Before Common Era

Question 3

What does AD stand for?

Answer 3

Anno Domini

Question 4

What was the first year of the olympic games?

Answer 4

776BCE

Question 5

What are a couple important aspects of Greek life?

Answer 5

Aesthetics and beauty

Question 6

What years was the Archaic period?

Answer 6

700 - 500 BCE

Question 7

What years was the Classical period?

Answer 7

479 - 323 BCE

Question 8

What years was the Hellenistic period?

Answer 8

323 - 31 BCE

Question 9

What was the construction technique in Greek architecture?

Answer 9

Trabeated (post and lintel)

Question 10

Where were the Minoan people?

Answer 10

present day island Crete, Greece

Question 11

Who was the first European civilization?

Answer 11

The Minoans

Question 12

The Minoans were what kind of empire?

Answer 12

Maritime

Question 13

The Minoans people consisted of what professions?

Answer 13

Farmers, voyagers, merchants and traders

Question 14

What was the palace in Crete called?

Answer 14

Palace of Knossos

Question 15

What was the building material of the palace of Knossos called?

Answer 15

Ashlar

Question 16

What did Ashlar look like?

Answer 16

Finely dressed/shaped clean cut stone edges.

Question 17

What word was the Palace of Knossos described as?

Answer 17

Labyrinth

Question 18

What material was the walls framed out of in the Palace of Knossos

Answer 18

Wood

Question 19

What fictional character was believed to be in the labyrinth of the palace of Knossos?

Answer 19

Minotaur

Question 20

What were stairs constructed with to get air into lower levels of the Knossos palace?

Answer 20

open shafts

Question 21

What were the Minoan Frescoes?

Answer 21

Paintings done on wet, plastered walls, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and dry with it.

Question 22

Where did the Mycenaeans live?

Answer 22

Mainland Greece

Question 23

What was the time of the Mycenaeans?

Answer 23

1600 BCE

Question 24

Where the Mycenaean city states fighting a lot?

Answer 24

Yes the towns were heavily fortified suggesting so.

Question 25

What was Cyclopean masonry?

Answer 25

Massive limestone boulders roughly fitted together, gaps filled with small pieces of limestone. Used for fortification.

Question 26

What kind of arch was the Lions Gate?

Answer 26

corbelled

Question 27

Year for treasury of Atreus

Answer 27

1330 BCE

Question 28

Whats a Tholos?

Answer 28

Beehive tomb

Question 29

Whats a Dromos?

Answer 29

A passage

Question 30

What is a Polis

Answer 30

A self-governed city-state with an urban nucleus.

Question 31

Agora

Answer 31

City center and common marketplace. Hub of all public economic, political and social activities.

Question 32

Polis was the birth of _________.

Answer 32

Democracy

Question 33

A polis focused on improving private or public spaces?

Answer 33

Public

Question 34

What is a Acropolis?

Answer 34

Sites located atop the highest terrain as strategic defensible spaces.

Question 35

What is a Acropolis used for?

Answer 35

Usually functions as a religious sanctuary situated away from the City center.

Question 36

What was a Stoa?

Answer 36

A covered walkway or a portico, commonly for public use.

Question 37

Miletus Greece was built on how many terraces?

Answer 37

4

Question 38

What was the Bouleterion at Miletus used for?

Answer 38

Citizens would come to discuss policy and concerns for city.

Question 39

What is the Opisthodomos in a Greek temple?

Answer 39

rear room

Question 40

What is the Cella/naos in a greek temple?

Answer 40

Main chamber that houses the statue.

Question 41

What is the Pronaos in a greek temple?

Answer 41

front porch

Question 42

What is the Stylobate in a greek temple?

Answer 42

platform that the columns stand on

Question 43

What are the Anti columns in a greek temple?

Answer 43

columns of the front and rear walls between the antae

Question 44

Antae?

Answer 44

wall thickenings

Question 45

What was the development of orders for the Greek column?

Answer 45

Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

Question 46

What was the Partheneon?

Answer 46

Doric temple that uses some ionic attributes

Question 47

How many columns wide and deep is the partheneon?

Answer 47

8 wide 17 deep

Question 48

What material was the partheneon made out of?

Answer 48

marble

Question 49

How many years did the Parthenon survive

Answer 49

over 2000

Question 50

Human perception is flawed, and it needed ____________ adjustments in order to create a visual impression of ____________.

Answer 50

Architectural, perfection

Question 51

What is entasis

Answer 51

the swelling of columns to correct influence of curving inwards.

Question 52

What was the Propylaea

Answer 52

Monumental entrance to the acropolis

Question 53

What was the porch of maide