The Aegean

Question 1

Cycladic Civilization

Answer 1

3000-1600 BCE

Question 2

Female Cycladic Figures

Answer 2

Cycladic, 2500 BCE, marble

Question 3

Minoan Civilation

Answer 3

2000-1450 BCE

Question 4

The Palace at Knossos

Answer 4

1600-1400 BCE Minoan

Question 5

Bull Jumping Fresco

Answer 5

1500 BCE, reconstructed, Minoan

Knossos

Question 6

Snake Goddess

Answer 6

1600 BCE, faience, Minoan

Knossos

Question 7

The Flotilla Fresco

Answer 7

1500 BCE Minoan

Thera

Question 8

Beaked Jug

Answer 8

1800 BCE, Kamares ware, Minoan

Question 9

Octopus Vase

Answer 9

1500 BCE, terracotta, Minoan

Question 10

Mycenaean Civilization

Answer 10

1600-1100 BCE

Question 11

Aerial View of Mycenae, Greece

Answer 11

1600-1200 BCE, Greece Mycenaean

Question 12

Lion Gate

Answer 12

1300 BCE, limestone relief, Mycenaean

Question 13

Tholos Tomb

Answer 13

(Treasury of Atreus) 1300 BCE, Mycenaean

Question 14

Mask of Agamemnon

Answer 14

1500 BCE, gold, Mycenaean

Question 15

Rhyton

Answer 15

An ancient drinking or pouring vessel made from pottery, metal, or stone, and sometimes designed in a human or animal form

Question 16

Megaron

Answer 16

From the greek word for “large”. The central audience hall in a Minoan or Mycenaean palace or home.

Question 17

Kamares Ware

Answer 17

have a black background and normally white, red, or blue designs. Ceramic of the minoan period

Question 18

Corbel, corbel vault

Answer 18

a bracket that projects from a wall to aid in supporting weight. The projection of one course, or horizontal row, of a building material beyond the course below it.

In a vault the corbel eventually meet to form the highest point of the vault.

Question 19

Casemate

Answer 19

A chamber or compartment within a fortified wall, usually used for the storage of artillery and munitions.

Question 20

Heraldic Pose

Answer 20

A pose where two figures are mirror images of one another, sometimes flanking a central object. (Lions Gate)

Question 21

Tholos

Answer 21

A building with a circular plan, often with a sacred nature.

Question 22

Labyrinth

Answer 22

a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze

Question 23

Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 24

Cyclopes/Cyclopaean

Answer 24

One eyed creatures

Question 25

Minotaur

Answer 25

monster shaped half like a man and half like a bull, confined in the labyrinth built by Daedalus for Minos, and given a periodic tribute of youths and maidens as food until slain by Theseus.

Question 26

King Minos

Answer 26

Ruler of Minoan civilization?