CLA 210 NCSU Exam 1 (Heinen) Questions and Answers with complete solution

Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)() - Mycenae takes over Crete, destroyed Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450. Early Dark Age(1250-900): - -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): - -Population growth and new trade. -800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in Magna Graecia, S. Italy (Siciliy) Archaic (750-480) - -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): - -First democracy. -Athens is famous. -We see the rise of culture and lit (Socrates, Plato, Euripides, Xenphon) Hellenistic(323-30): - -Alexander the Great dies, Greece falls. -Greeks then adapt Roman culture, Rome expands beyond Italy, Romans translate Greek lit into Roman. Linear B - -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 - - EgyptianInanna/Ishtar - -Egyptian (Babylonian) -Goddess of love & fertility (Meso diety). -Attempts to seduce Gilgamesh; fails. Gilgamesh - -Egyptian (Babylonian) -King of Uruk Enkidu - -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 - -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 - -1st European writer -"Theogony" most important mythical texts to survive Theogony - -written by Hesiod -Tells the origin of the universe through succeeding generations of gods. -an elaborate hymn to Zeus Homer - -The man-some of our earliest greek lit -written down once greek alphabet was established, oral stories before that. Homeric Hymns - -during archaic period -collection of poems -composed orally -written to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite -performed in specific places by aoidoi