The Bronze Age/ Archaic Age

Question 1

Bronze age involves

Answer 1

Mycenaean civilisation
fall of Troy

Question 1

c. the year of the fall of Troy

Answer 1

1250 BC

Question 2

Mycenaean civilisation

Answer 2

c. 1500-1120 BC

Question 3

Dark ages events

Answer 3

Doric invasion of Greece
Homeric stories passed down in oral form

Question 4

Homer

Answer 4

GREEK poet from TROY

Question 5

Doric invasion of Greece date

Answer 5

c.1100 BC

Question 6

when were Homeric stories passed down orally

Answer 6

c. 1100-750 BC

Question 7

What happened in the Archaic Period

Answer 7

Olympic games est. (by Heracles or Oiomaus)
Homer’s Iliad
Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days
Homer’s Odyssey

Question 8

Bronze Age definition

Answer 8

the period in which bronze was introduced and became widely used. From around 3000BC

Question 9

Mycenaean Period definition

Answer 9

the last phase of the Bronze Age, from about 1600-1100, centred on palace societies such as that in Mycenae

Question 10

when did Homer write the Iliad

Answer 10

c. 720 BC

Question 11

when did Homer write the Odyssey

Answer 11

c. 680 BC