Vocab Part 3

Question 1

Minoan

Answer 1

Having to do with the ancient civilization on Crete

Question 2

Archaic Period

Answer 2

Pre-Greece

Question 3

Thalassocracy

Answer 3

Sea power

Question 4

Palatial culture

Answer 4

Everything is centered around or done in the palace (i.e. economic, political, religious, and social)

Question 5

Bronze

Answer 5

Tin + copper

Question 6

Pantheon

Answer 6

Gods of a particular mythology

Question 7

“wanax”

Answer 7

Title of a king in the Peloponnese Area

Question 8

Cyclopean stone

Answer 8

Believed to be rocks only Cyclopes could lift

Question 9

Ilion

Answer 9

Greek name for Troy

Question 10

Achaeans

Answer 10

Another name for the Greeks, what the old Greeks used to call themselves (mostly in the Iliod)

Question 11

Agamemnon

Answer 11

King of Mycenae

Question 12

Menelaos

Answer 12

1st husband of Helen (at this point known as Helen of Sparta), king of Sparta

Question 13

Achilles

Answer 13

Greek hero in the Iliad

Question 14

Hektor (Hector)

Answer 14

Trojan hero in the Iliad

Question 15

Paris

Answer 15

Another name for Alexandros, 2nd husband of Helen (now known as Helen of Troy)

Question 16

Helen of Troy and Sparta

Answer 16

Wife of Menelaus and Paris

Question 17

Anachronism

Answer 17

Something or someone that is not in the correct historical or chronological time

Question 18

Historical fiction

Answer 18

Imaginative reconstruction of historical events or people