Movement by Sea

Question 1

Phoenicians Ecology

Answer 1

• Called their land Canaan, and themselves Canaanites
• narrow land between Mediterranean and the mountains
• not much room on land for farming
  They turned to the Sea for exploration and trade because they could not profit from agriculture
• Spoke semitic language

Question 2

Myceneans Ecology

Answer 2

• Present-day Greece
• Lack of minerals = poor soil for farming
• turned to Sea trade
• Mountains prevented political unification, physical barriers between peoples, so city-states formed
• Influenced by Minoan culture (from Crete)

Question 3

Mycenean famous king

Answer 3

Agamemnon

Featured in the Iliad
Famous gold funerary mask found

Question 4

Aristocracy

Answer 4

rule by a class of wealthy or well-born families

(Downton Abbey)

Question 5

Oligarchy

Answer 5

rule by a select few

Question 6

Democracy

Answer 6

rule by the entire body of citizens

the Greeks viewed this as the least efficient, especially for large countries with dispersed populations

Question 7

Monarchy

Answer 7

one-man rule

(British Monarchy, the King and Queen)

Question 8

Tyranny

Answer 8

illegal seizure of power during times of crisis

(When Set took over after dismembering Osiris and ruled Egypt for a while illegitimately)

Question 9

Lapita Culture

Answer 9

Settlers in New Guinea created the Lapita system and culture around 1600 B.C.
- Kinship-based exchanges between inhabitants of thousands of islands
- One of the world’s largest trading spheres
- based on trading pottery and obsidian, there was a lack of metals on the islands

Question 10

Greek/Mycenean/Mesopotamian city differences

Answer 10

• In Greek city-states, voters knew the leaders they elected, Mesopotamian government was separated from citizens
• Mycenean and Mesopotamian cities included a palace as the center of power, Greeks did not.
• Greek cities had an open space in the city center for general assemblies

Question 11

Iconic Greek urban architecture

Answer 11

Large Administrative buildings with porches supported by rows of pillars. Style and techniques originally came from Egypt.

Question 12

Oceanic travel

Answer 12

• Technological advances in long-distance navigation
  - invented the outrigger sailing canoe
  - extensive navigational information and mental maps, memorized currents and island locations
• Hearty root vegetables like Yams and Taro could be grown and stored for long voyages
• sails and paddles for canoes

Question 13

Oceanic settlers origin

Answer 13

From what is now Taiwan
Languages belonged to Austronesian family