CLA 210 ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWER KEY
●● Early Dark Age(1250-900):
Answer: -Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary
decline.
-Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over.
-1250 marks Trojan war.
●● Late Dark Age (900-750):
Answer: -Population growth and new trade.
-800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in
Magna Graecia, S. Italy (Siciliy)
●● Archaic (750-480)
Answer: -Rise of City States (Thebes, Athens, and Sparta)
-499: Ionian Greeks rebel which creates conflict with Persia. 479-
Xerxes was driven from Greece.
●● Classical(480-323):
Answer: -First democracy.
-Athens is famous.
,-We see the rise of culture and lit (Socrates, Plato, Euripides, Xenphon)
●● Hellenistic(323-30):
Answer: -Alexander the Great dies, Greece falls.
-Greeks then adapt Roman culture, Rome expands beyond Italy, Romans
translate Greek lit into Roman.
●● Linear B
Answer: -A script that recorded a form of Mycenaean Greek script and
deciphered in 1952 (Ventris.) Used for keeping economic accounts.
Found in Pylos, Mycenae, &Thebes (showing cultural uniformity)
●● Isis
Answer: - Egyptian
●● Inanna/Ishtar
Answer: -Egyptian (Babylonian)
-Goddess of love & fertility (Meso diety).
-Attempts to seduce Gilgamesh; fails.
●● Gilgamesh
Answer: -Egyptian (Babylonian)
-King of Uruk
,●● Enkidu
Answer: -Babylonian
-Sent by gods to divert Gilgamesh to relieve people
-Wild, naked and uncivilized until tamed by prostitute
-Fights and then becomes Gilgamesh's BFF
●● Epic of Gilgamesh
Answer: -Enkidu sent to help people of Uruk by stopping Gilgamesh
-After fight, Enkidu and Gilgamesh become friends
-Both go on journey to Cedar Mtn to defeat Humbaba
-Kill Bull of Heaven sent by Ishtar
-Enkidu sentenced to death
-After Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh goes on journey for eternal life...
doesn't find it.
-This resembles....
●● Hesiod
Answer: -1st European writer
-"Theogony" most important mythical texts to survive
●● Theogony
, Answer: -written by Hesiod
-Tells the origin of the universe through succeeding generations of gods.
-an elaborate hymn to Zeus
●● Homer
Answer: -The man
-some of our earliest greek lit
-written down once greek alphabet was established, oral stories before
that.
●● Homeric Hymns
Answer: -during archaic period
-collection of poems
-composed orally
-written to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite
-performed in specific places by aoidoi
●● Apollodorus
Answer: -most surviving work of the mythographers
-straight forward account of mythical events from creation to death of
Odyssesus
-primary source for creation story
COMPLETE ANSWER KEY
●● Early Dark Age(1250-900):
Answer: -Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary
decline.
-Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over.
-1250 marks Trojan war.
●● Late Dark Age (900-750):
Answer: -Population growth and new trade.
-800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in
Magna Graecia, S. Italy (Siciliy)
●● Archaic (750-480)
Answer: -Rise of City States (Thebes, Athens, and Sparta)
-499: Ionian Greeks rebel which creates conflict with Persia. 479-
Xerxes was driven from Greece.
●● Classical(480-323):
Answer: -First democracy.
-Athens is famous.
,-We see the rise of culture and lit (Socrates, Plato, Euripides, Xenphon)
●● Hellenistic(323-30):
Answer: -Alexander the Great dies, Greece falls.
-Greeks then adapt Roman culture, Rome expands beyond Italy, Romans
translate Greek lit into Roman.
●● Linear B
Answer: -A script that recorded a form of Mycenaean Greek script and
deciphered in 1952 (Ventris.) Used for keeping economic accounts.
Found in Pylos, Mycenae, &Thebes (showing cultural uniformity)
●● Isis
Answer: - Egyptian
●● Inanna/Ishtar
Answer: -Egyptian (Babylonian)
-Goddess of love & fertility (Meso diety).
-Attempts to seduce Gilgamesh; fails.
●● Gilgamesh
Answer: -Egyptian (Babylonian)
-King of Uruk
,●● Enkidu
Answer: -Babylonian
-Sent by gods to divert Gilgamesh to relieve people
-Wild, naked and uncivilized until tamed by prostitute
-Fights and then becomes Gilgamesh's BFF
●● Epic of Gilgamesh
Answer: -Enkidu sent to help people of Uruk by stopping Gilgamesh
-After fight, Enkidu and Gilgamesh become friends
-Both go on journey to Cedar Mtn to defeat Humbaba
-Kill Bull of Heaven sent by Ishtar
-Enkidu sentenced to death
-After Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh goes on journey for eternal life...
doesn't find it.
-This resembles....
●● Hesiod
Answer: -1st European writer
-"Theogony" most important mythical texts to survive
●● Theogony
, Answer: -written by Hesiod
-Tells the origin of the universe through succeeding generations of gods.
-an elaborate hymn to Zeus
●● Homer
Answer: -The man
-some of our earliest greek lit
-written down once greek alphabet was established, oral stories before
that.
●● Homeric Hymns
Answer: -during archaic period
-collection of poems
-composed orally
-written to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite
-performed in specific places by aoidoi
●● Apollodorus
Answer: -most surviving work of the mythographers
-straight forward account of mythical events from creation to death of
Odyssesus
-primary source for creation story
