CCI Final Exam
Late Bronze Age Cultures - ANS -Minoans and Mycenaeans
Minoans Homeland - ANS -Knossos
Minoans Tablets - ANS -Linear A: untranslated
Linear B: Greek
assumed to be transactions and business
Mycenean Homeland - ANS -Greece
Myceneans Patriarchy - ANS -male power, repressive to women
Mycenean Military - ANS -better compared to Minoan
Anax - ANS -Mycene palace ruler
Dark Age - ANS -immediately after end of Mycenaean period
end of palace culture (no more anax)
Positives in Dark Age - ANS -closer class system (less gap between upper and lower)
iron, pottery, writing
greater trade with eastern culture
development of Panhellenism
Panhellenism - ANS -larger sense of Greek identity
Demos - ANS -people (large unit of community)
Oikos - ANS -household (led by eldest male)
Kleros - ANS -plot of land (allotment)
Basileus - ANS -chief (more equal to his people than anax)
Aristocracy - ANS -powerful families
Phoenician Alphabet - ANS -used to transcribe Greek
Homer - ANS -Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
, Illiad - ANS -epic poem about the Trojan war, by Homer
Odyssey - ANS -Epic Poem by Homer about Odysseus returning home after Trojan War
Trojan War - ANS -10 year war fought by Greeks
Agamemnon and Menelaus against Troy and Trojans
Trojan Prince stole Menelaus wife Helen
Time - ANS -honor
Kleos - ANS -glory
Aristos - ANS -being the best
At the end of Iliad Book 1, Hephaestus helps break up a fight between _____? - ANS -Zeus &
Hera
The heroes featured in Homer's poetry (Iliad, Odyssey) were probably based on memories of
what society? - ANS -Mycenean
To what age did the civilization that lived in Cnossos (Knossos) belong (i. e., the one the
Cnossos chapter focuses on)? - ANS -Bronze Age
What crisis strikes the Greek camp in Book 1 of the Iliad? - ANS -plague
Which of these best captures the difference between Linear A and Linear B? - ANS -Linear B
contains Greek, Linear A contains non-Greek
Which of these was NOT a staple of the Cnossos (Knossos) diet, according to Cartledge? -
ANS -potatoes
Which of these innovations did Greeks adopt (from Phoenicians) during the Dark Age? - ANS
-alphabet-style writing
Xenia - ANS -Greek code of hospitality; guest friendship
Diomedes and Glaucus in Iliad Book 6
Thersites - ANS -common soldier
ugliest man in the army
Summary of Iliad Book 1 - ANS -plague, conflict between Agamemnon & Achilles, Achilles
withdrawal & curse (Thetis, A's mom, brings to Zeus) May Greeks die & regret dishonoring
Achilles!
Late Bronze Age Cultures - ANS -Minoans and Mycenaeans
Minoans Homeland - ANS -Knossos
Minoans Tablets - ANS -Linear A: untranslated
Linear B: Greek
assumed to be transactions and business
Mycenean Homeland - ANS -Greece
Myceneans Patriarchy - ANS -male power, repressive to women
Mycenean Military - ANS -better compared to Minoan
Anax - ANS -Mycene palace ruler
Dark Age - ANS -immediately after end of Mycenaean period
end of palace culture (no more anax)
Positives in Dark Age - ANS -closer class system (less gap between upper and lower)
iron, pottery, writing
greater trade with eastern culture
development of Panhellenism
Panhellenism - ANS -larger sense of Greek identity
Demos - ANS -people (large unit of community)
Oikos - ANS -household (led by eldest male)
Kleros - ANS -plot of land (allotment)
Basileus - ANS -chief (more equal to his people than anax)
Aristocracy - ANS -powerful families
Phoenician Alphabet - ANS -used to transcribe Greek
Homer - ANS -Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
, Illiad - ANS -epic poem about the Trojan war, by Homer
Odyssey - ANS -Epic Poem by Homer about Odysseus returning home after Trojan War
Trojan War - ANS -10 year war fought by Greeks
Agamemnon and Menelaus against Troy and Trojans
Trojan Prince stole Menelaus wife Helen
Time - ANS -honor
Kleos - ANS -glory
Aristos - ANS -being the best
At the end of Iliad Book 1, Hephaestus helps break up a fight between _____? - ANS -Zeus &
Hera
The heroes featured in Homer's poetry (Iliad, Odyssey) were probably based on memories of
what society? - ANS -Mycenean
To what age did the civilization that lived in Cnossos (Knossos) belong (i. e., the one the
Cnossos chapter focuses on)? - ANS -Bronze Age
What crisis strikes the Greek camp in Book 1 of the Iliad? - ANS -plague
Which of these best captures the difference between Linear A and Linear B? - ANS -Linear B
contains Greek, Linear A contains non-Greek
Which of these was NOT a staple of the Cnossos (Knossos) diet, according to Cartledge? -
ANS -potatoes
Which of these innovations did Greeks adopt (from Phoenicians) during the Dark Age? - ANS
-alphabet-style writing
Xenia - ANS -Greek code of hospitality; guest friendship
Diomedes and Glaucus in Iliad Book 6
Thersites - ANS -common soldier
ugliest man in the army
Summary of Iliad Book 1 - ANS -plague, conflict between Agamemnon & Achilles, Achilles
withdrawal & curse (Thetis, A's mom, brings to Zeus) May Greeks die & regret dishonoring
Achilles!
