Tidligere historie

Question 1

Hva er den neolittiske revolusjonen (“the Neolithic Revolution”)?

Answer 1

Overgangen fra nomadiske jeger-samler-samfunn til bofaste jordbrukssamfunn.

Question 2

Hva er sekunderproduktsrevolusjonen (“the secondary products revolution”)? og når var den?

Answer 2

Overgangen til å drive husdyrhold for melk, ull etc. i tillegg til kjøtt. ca 3000 BC i Hellas

Question 3

Når endte den siste istid?

Answer 3

ca 9600 BC

Question 4

Hva er bronse?

Answer 4

kobber blandet med tinn eller arsenikk

Question 5

Når var tidlig bronsealder?

Answer 5

3000-2300 BC

Question 6

Når brant House of Tiles og det meste annet på fastlandet?

Answer 6

2300 BC

Question 7

Hvor og hva var House of Tiles?

Answer 7

I Lerna 2500 BC, to etasjer, avansert for sin tid

Question 8

Når var middel bronsealderen?

Answer 8

2300-1800 BC

Question 9

Når var de minoiske palassers tid?

Answer 9

2000-1600 BC

Question 10

I De mørke århundrene etter 1200 BC ble mye av gresk bronsearbeid erstattet med…?

Answer 10

jern

Question 11

Hva karakteriserer protogeometrisk keramikk?

Answer 11

Sirkler og halvsirkler tegnet med flere parallelle linjer, fravær av dyr/mennesker

Question 12

Hva er Khufu-pyramiden?

Answer 12

Verdens største pyramide, fra 2600 fvt, 146,6 meter høy, var verdens høyeste bygning i 3800 år. 2,6 millioner m3

Question 13

hva er the fertile crecent

Answer 13

that band of fertile land arcing from southern
Mesopotamia, through Palestine, to Egypt

Question 14

what is Cycladic figurines?

Answer 14

beautiful and enigmatic marble figurines found in the Cycladic islands

Question 15

hva er indo-europeer

Answer 15

A hypothetical ethnic group who spoke proto-Indo-
European (also called Indo-Aryans)

Question 16

Cnossus

Answer 16

principal Bronze Age settlement in Crete,
where labyrinthine ruins have been found

Question 17

Minos

Answer 17

card Cretan king of Cnossus, son of Zeus and Europa,
husband of Pasiphaë, judge in the underworld

Question 18

Minotaur

Answer 18

(“bull of Minos”), half-man, half-bull offspring of Pasiphaë and a bull

Question 19

Second Palace Period

Answer 19

c. 1700-1450 on Crete

Question 20

hva er Linear A

Answer 20

an undeciphered script used on Crete

Question 21

thalassocracy

Answer 21

kingdom of the sea

Question 22

Hva er gravsirkel A

Answer 22

monument built around 1650 BC at Mycenae

Question 23

Pylos

Answer 23

card Bronze Age settlement in the southwest Peloponnesus,
kingdom of Nestor where important archaeological remains have
been found

Question 24

hva er Linear B

Answer 24

the syllabic writing of Mycenaean Greece

Question 25

wanaktes

Answer 25

“kings” on Linear B tablets (singular, wanax)

Question 26

megaron

Answer 26

I Mykene; (“great hall”) a large room in the center of which was a circular
hearth and a smoke hole above,

Question 27

Ahhiyawa

Answer 27

the Hittite name for the Greeks (Achaeans)

Question 28

Achaea

Answer 28

one of the three names that Homer would later use for Greece

Question 29

philistines

Answer 29

mykenske flyktninger som bodde i Palestina