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Did cuneiform signs stand for single letter sounds, or whole whole syllables?
Whole syllables.
What type of writing did the inventors of the alphabet do?
Not just sacred texts and songs, but letters, contacts, and receipts.
What type of people were the creators of the alphabet?
Merchants.
What people did the inventors of the alphabet live close to?
The Jewish people.
In which ports did they live?
The ports of Tyre and Sidon.
What are The Phoenicians famous for inventing?
The alphabet.
What did wild tribes trade with The Phoenicians?
Furs, and precious stones in exchange for tools, cooking pots, and colored cloth.
What were The Phoenicians known for?
Their craftsmanship.
What temple did The Phoenicians help construct?
Solomon’s.
What was the most popular of the Phoenician goods?
Dyed cloth, especially the purple.
What did many of the Phoenicians do on foreign shores?
Stayed on their trading posts and built towns.
Where did the Phoenicians travel?
Africa, Spain, and southern Italy.
Why were the Phoenicians welcomed everywhere they went?
The beautiful things they brought.
How long ago did the Phoenicians invent the alphabet.
Three thousand years ago.
How many beats to a line do hexameters have?
Six.
What types of verses were chanted by Greek minstrels at feasts?
Hexameters.
Who got all the credit for the famous Ancient Greek hexameters?
Homer.
What was Schliemann occupation?
He was a businessman.
When was Schliemann around?
More than two hundred years ago.
What parts of Homers tales were true?
The drinking cups, weapons, buildings, ships, the princes who were at the same time shepherds, and the heroes who were also sea raiders.
What was Schliemann famous for?
Dedicating his life’s work to unveiling the actual physical remains of the cities of Homer’s epic tales.
What did Schliemann find at Mycenae?
Palaces, and the tombs of kings, armor, and shields.
What ancient city did Schliemann find?
Troy.
What happened to Troy?
It was destroyed by fire.
What was odd about all the tombs and palaces in Troy?
There wasn’t one inscription on them.
What was found at Mycenae that helped them put a date on the artifacts they found?
A ring.
What language was the inscription on the ring in?
Hieroglyphs.
What time can the ring be dated back to?
1400 BC
What was on the ring?
The name of an Egyptian King who had been the predecessor of Akhenaton.
How would one describe Ancient Greece?
Not so much as a kingdom, but as a collection of small fortified cities, each with its own palace and king.
Did sea raiding fall to the peasants or nobility in Ancient Greece?
The nobility.
What were the majority of Ancient Greek citizens?
Shepherds and peasants.
Why did history begin to progress much faster around the time of Ancient Greece?
Unlike the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Assyrians the Ancient Greek noblemen weren’t interested in preserving the ways of their ancestors.
what were some of the things Schliemann found in his excavations of Greek cities?
Fine vessels, daggers decorated with hunting scenes, golden shields and helmets, jewelry, and even the colorful paintings on the walls of the halls.
Where were the beautiful things Schliemann found from?
Crete.
What had the Cretans built around the time of King Hammurabi?
Splendid royal palaces, with innumerable rooms, staircases running up and down in all directions, great pillars, courtyards, corridors, and cellars.
Why is Crete famous for labyrinths?
There was a myth about an evil Minotaur who lived in a labyrinth in Crete and ancient Greeks were made to send him human sacrifices every year.
What monster is half man half bull?
The Minotaur.
How many human sacrifices did the ancient Greeks have to send to Crete each year?
Fourteen. seven boys, and seven girls.
What mattered most to Cretan artists?
Catching animals or people in rapid motion.
Veritable?
Used as an intensifier, often to qualify a metaphor.
Tyre?
In modern day Lebanon one of the oldest cities in the world dating back 4,000 years.
Sidon?
The third largest city in Lebanon.
Artisans?
a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
Mycenae?
archaeological site in Greece.
Schliemann?
A pioneer in the field of archaeology (1822-1890)
chieftain?
The leader of a people or clan.
Sioux?
A tribe of Native American people with seven sub tribes.
mohicans
Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe of what is now the upper Hudson River valley
