Week 1

Question 1

What are the 2 types of History?

Answer 1

• Raw history (made by them for their own use)
• Processed history

Question 2

What was the name for a hired rhetorician?

Answer 2

Logographer

Question 3

Who was the first to write about history and NOT include myth or absurdities?

Answer 3

Heketaios of Miletus

Question 4

True or False

Herodotus used archaeology

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

True or False

Herodotus was only half Greek

Answer 5

TRUE

Question 6

How does Herodotus arrive at the truth?

Answer 6

• He writes literally everything
• Includes all known perspectives and alternative events
• The truth is bound to be in there somewhere

Question 7

Which king tells Gyges to peak at his wife nude to see how beautiful she is?

Answer 7

Kaundaules

Question 8

What does Herodotus say in his “Marvels of Egypt”?

Answer 8

• That the Egyptians were a highly religious peoples

Question 9

What is the word for seeing something for yourself?

Answer 9

Autopsia

Question 10

How did Thucydides arrive at the truth?

Answer 10

• By claiming to be an eyewitness (Autopsia)

Question 11

Who wrote about the decline of Spartan power?

Answer 11

Xenophon

Question 12

How did Aristotle differentiate Poets and Historians?

Answer 12

Poets write what could happen

Historians write what did happen

Question 13

Who said that poetry is much more scientific and serious than history?

Answer 13

Aristotle

Question 14

What did they use before Linear B?

Answer 14

• Oral tradition
• Common knowledge

Question 15

Who wrote about early Greece?

Answer 15

Thucydides

Question 16

Greeks began to inhabit permanent settlements in the _____________ age

Answer 16

Neolithic

Question 17

What was the name of the large seasonally inhabited cave?

Answer 17

Francthi cave

Question 18

Where is the famous House of Tiles?

Answer 18

Lerna

Question 19

What was found en masse at Lerna?

Answer 19

Seal marks

Question 20

What ethnicity were the Minoans?

Answer 20

Semitic

Question 21

What was the largest Minoan palace kingdom?

Answer 21

Knossos

Question 22

Where was the Minoan “Pompeii”

Answer 22

Akrotiri

Question 23

Where were the 2 main palaces in Mycenae?

Answer 23

• Pylos
• Mycenae

Question 24

Who is the first person to establish a formal navy?

Answer 24

Minoan King Minos

Question 25

What were Pylos’ 2 main production sources?

Answer 25

1: Metal working
2: Wool production

Question 26

What do the Linear B tablets mean by “Key Bearer”?

Answer 26

Priestesses

Question 27

Who did the Mycenaeans worship?

Answer 27

The same 12 Olympian gods

Question 28

Who did the Minoans worship?

Answer 28

Mother-Goddess (a snake goddess)(The chief deity)