Week 5

Question 1

The Mycenaeans

Answer 1

they are from mainland greece
and wanted to find the city of troy

Question 2

in minoan culture they wanted to find?

Answer 2

the labrynith

Question 3

what was the iliad?

Answer 3

a poem aboyt the agean bronze age
written by homer
tells the story of the trojan war

Question 4

who was the king oa agamemnon of mycenae

Answer 4

him and his allies had to save the stolen queen hellen
he had a ten year war withthe city of troy

Question 5

who discovered troy and the mycenaeans

Answer 5

heinrich schliemann

the myths inspired him to go find these places to see if they were real

Question 6

Myceanaen timeline

Answer 6

middle helladic III
late helladic II
late helladic IIIA (when knonoss was destructed)-myceaneans prolly did this and took over crete
late heladic IIB
palace destructions
late helladic IIIC

Question 7

Mycenaean writing

Answer 7

linear B

Question 8

linear B

Answer 8

based on linear A
deciphered by michael ventris
meant to be temp admin records
tripod tablets

Question 9

the arrival od the greeks

Answer 9

two theories
1-transiton from EHII to EHIII (beinging of the bronze ages)
2-final neolithic (arrival of agriculture)

Question 10

myceanean religion

Answer 10

ancerstor worship
worship of the olympian gods
female terracotta digurines phi and psi

Question 11

myceanean iconography

Answer 11

there is minoan influences
and mycenanan orginials

infleunces-motifis
presresntaiton of people
fresco

myceanean orgin
war and hunting motifis
method of dress
simple backgrounds

Question 12

political development

Answer 12

big men
cheifdoms
wanaktes

Question 13

big men

Answer 13

protocheif, some power/prepower

Question 14

wanax (wanktes)

Answer 14

king/king like religion and admin

Question 15

myceanean palaces

Answer 15

mycenae
pylos
tiryns

Question 16

myceane

Answer 16

whole place had a fortification wall

Question 17

pylos

Answer 17

megaron=main part

Question 18

knossos

Answer 18

complex and elaborate

Question 19

architecrtual features of mycenaean palaces

Answer 19

cyclopean masonry
large blocks of stones
seems like they were brough tby the cyclopes
fortificaiton walls
lions cate

Question 20

lions gate

Answer 20

found in mycenean places
grand entrance
ashlar masonry
prot adn lintel (entrance)
relieving triangle
hittite influence- the lions
minoan influence

Question 21

elements of a myceanaean palace

Answer 21

megaron
-central hearth
storerooms
workshops
religous aresas
royal dwellings

Question 22

functions of myceanean plalaces

Answer 22

political religous and econcomic centres
mehraron as seat of the wanax
no hierarchy between the palaces
fortification walls

Question 23

grave circle A

Answer 23

LH I
6 shaft graves and 19 bodies
stelai and burial mounds

inside the fortification wllas

this was escavated first but was more recent than B

Question 24

grave goods from grave circle A, LHI

Answer 24

mask od agamemnon
death masks
bulls
hunting things

Question 25

tholos tombs

Answer 25

dromos
stomion
corbelled vault
tumulus

Question 26

the treasury of atreus

Answer 26

father of agamenon but no real relation
tombs

Question 27

funerary customs

Answer 27

protehsis led by women (laying out the corpses)
washing and dressing the corps
offerings
ekphora-caring the body to place of tomb
aniaml sacrifice-horses
secondary buriables

Question 28

troy in myth

Answer 28

in homers iliad
helen is kidnapped by paris
priam king of troy
agamemnon, king of mycenae and king of king
great walled city
destroyed by the myceaean s

Question 29

troy

Answer 29

in modern hisarlik turkey

Question 30

who escavated troy

Answer 30

heinrich schliemnan
local people told him where the site was

Question 31

where were the trojens

Answer 31

independent of the greek and the hittles

Question 32

what was foudn in troy II

Answer 32

priams treasure

priam was a mythycial king of troy

Question 33

modern history of priams treasture

Answer 33

schliemann smuggles out of turky
was supposed to give it to the government but took all of it
he was sued
and the royal meause,s in berlin now has them
WWII russia taken the treasure and brings it to russia

Question 34

troy VI

Answer 34

six
increase of size one of the largest bronze age cities
trojan war earlierest possible date
maybe earhtqyarke or ware

Question 35

Troy VIIa

Answer 35

rebuilt after troy VI
beseifed sack and burned
rebuild afterwards and contiubed ot be inhabitied on a small scale

Question 36

the bronze age collapse

Answer 36

toal collapse of developed cities and reulding of new cities

Question 37

what was evidence of the collapse

Answer 37

trouble brewing
increase fortificaitons
protection sof water supply and workshops
destruciton
almost all places destoryed by a fire
a lot of linear B was unintensiona;;y fired
collapse
withdrawl from cities to the hills
arts in decline
myceanean palace system, hittie empire, ugarit all fall

Question 38

possible factors of conflict

Answer 38

civil wars
hitties vs the egyptians
seven agaisn thebes (confilict against the greeks)
dorian invasion
the doric greek dialect
wall across the isthmus of corinth
sea peoples
accounts of attach from 14011th century with unclear origins

Question 39

possible factors: system collapse and enviromental impacts

Answer 39

system collapes
overly centralized economy
replacement of palaces with independant merchants and small city states

earthquarkes
seismic evidence does not support this claim

climate change
evidence of drought in anatolia and the levant ancient document refer to grain shortages

Question 40

overall conlusion about the fall

Answer 40

the perfect storm theory

everything together contibuted to the collapse

Question 41

the aftermath

Answer 41

the postpalatial period
loss of writing linear b and cuneiform
disapperance of places and royalty
decrease in popn
pictorial pottery