Week 2 Flashcards

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1
Q

Eras of Greek in order

A

Minoan age
Mycenaean age
The dark ages
The Archaic age
The Classical period
The Hellenistic age

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2
Q

What age has Linear A Tablet
people from Crete mainly known for large palaces and are relatively peaceful and based on trade.

A

Minoan age

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3
Q

What as has a king, glory in war as a key culture value, used linear B tablet

A

Mycenaean age

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4
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What age does the decrease of population, monumental building and trade. Literacy disappears

A

The Dark ages

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5
Q

What age is the time of resurgence, Development of the
polis, good communication
between city states
contributes to a
common Greek identity, Literacy is rediscovered and alphabet is made

A

The Archaic age

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6
Q

what where people who told poetry/myths called

A

Aoidos

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7
Q

What’s the first style of of pottery and the second

A

Black figure
Red figure

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8
Q

What age is the golden age of Greece, Athens dominates the
historical record

A

The Classical Period

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9
Q

a __________ is a person who writes about myths

A

mythographer

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10
Q

________ are the plots of many of the tragedies were taking from mythology,
especially heroic myths

A

Athenian tragedy

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11
Q

What age? post-Alexander the
Great Greek world, famous successor kingdom is the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt, increase in mythology

A

The Hellenistic Age

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