Trojan War and Dark Ages

Question 1

Trojan War

Answer 1

• Troy - modern day Turkey
• Mycenaean - Peloponnesus
• war to control Aegean sea
• Paris’ and Helen’s marriage

Question 2

Trojan war quotes

Answer 2

• beware of Greeks bearing gifts
• a face that launched a thousand ships (Helen of Sparta)
• Achilles’ heel

Question 3

dark ages

Answer 3

• c. 1150 BC Mycenaeans fall to invaders
• Dorians move in from N Greece
• written language disappears
• oral tradition

Question 4

isolation

Answer 4

• writing began again c. 800 BC
• based on Phoenician alphabet
• 700s BC Homer writes epic poems, The Iliad, The Odyssey