Vocab Part 2

Question 1

Plutarch

Answer 1

Greek historian and philosopher

Question 2

Heinrich Schliemann

Answer 2

Amateur German archaeologist who discovered Troy and Mycenae

Question 3

Aegeus

Answer 3

Father of Theseus; Aegean Sea named for him after he threw himself into it thinking Theseus dead

Question 4

Mycenae

Answer 4

First Greek state

Question 5

Tholos

Answer 5

A dry-stone beehive-shaped tomb associated with the Mycenaean culture of Greece in the 16th to 12th century BC

Question 6

Assimilation

Answer 6

Merging cultural traits from distinct groups by force or by gradual adoption

Question 7

Ethnocentric

Answer 7

The belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture

Question 8

Why do you suppose the relatively isolated and independent early Greek city-states shredded trade, language, and culture?

Answer 8

They might’ve had a common origin from Mycenae.

Question 9

Examples of Greek ethnocentrism

Answer 9

Polycrates was the 1st Greek to gain control of the sea. The 1st human being ever to rule the seas was Minos. To discredit him, Herodotus proclaimed that you were only a human being if you we’re Greek. So this means that Polycrates was the 1st “human being” to rule the seas.

Question 10

What evidence in Minoa/Crete suggests that Mycenaeans may not have taken the kingdom by forcible invasion?

Answer 10

Nothing changed very much. For example, the people still used Linear B and the same tombs.