MIDTERM TWO!!!! - Concepts

Question 1

Identity (Mann)

Answer 1

• Imagery
• Texts
• Material artifacts and ecofacts from burials

Question 2

Power (Mann)

Answer 2

♣ The capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events
♣ Archaeological sources:
• Material, monuments, burial contexts, imagery, texts
♣ Michael Mann’s four sources of power:
• Economic, military, ideological, political!
o Conspicuous …- the idea of using more of what you actually need to represent power, i.e. pyramids, large ass buildings

Question 3

Iron Age in the Near East

Answer 3

o Control of resources important
o Long distance trade of items and more conflict between empires
o Monumental structures

Question 4

Minoan Civilization

Answer 4

o Aegean Bronze Age – civilization, arose on island of Crete (3650-1400 BCE)
o Rediscovered by Sir Arthur Evans
o “Minoan” refers to mythic king Minos of Knossos

Question 5

Collapse and decline

Answer 5

-Factors of stress:
food shortages, competing polities, disease, environmental changes
-How do we see them archaeologically?