Midterm Flashcards
Key terms
Menis
Anger
Kleos
Glory
Geras
War prize (Chryseis and Briseis)
Stone Age
Stone tools and weaponry
?-2000BC
Bronze Age
Bronze weaponry and tools
kings were social elite
(2000-1000BC)
Iron Age
Used Iron Metals for tools and weaponry
1000-1BC
Dark Age
Depopulation Loss of writing system Decreased Agriculture First Olympic Games Warriors are social elite
Archaic Age
Social Change Upward Mobility Polis (village to urban) Citadel based cities Commonly agreed laws citizenship
Minoan Civilization
Came before Mycenean
Palace centered
(Knossos, Plaistow, Mallika, Zakros)
Palace centered civilizations
Mycenea Tiryns Athens Orchomenus Thebes Pylos
Knossos, Crete
Honey comb structures
decorated walls, ceilings and pillars
Mycenean Civilization
Walls
Warlike society
Wanax
Lions gate
Megaron
Central Great Hall
Wanax
King
Heinrich Schleimann
Found the tomb of Agamemmnon at 1879
also called treasury of Atreus
Linear A/Linear B
Two writing systems during bronze age.
Linear A: Not deciphered
Linear B: Deciphered
Teichoskopia
View from the wall
Judgment of Paris
Paris decides between Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena who wins the apple.
Paris picks Aphrodite and wins Helen.
Boar’s tusk helmet
Worn by the wealthy
worn by Odysseus