midterm study guide
Franchthi Cave - - southeastern Greece, inhabited from 20,000-3000 BC
- Allowed archaeologists to reconstruct life in Greece from Stone age to Bronze age & appearance of 1st
complex societies
- Records shows that Greek life changed 12,000 years ago when ice sheets began to melt
- In beginning of Neolithic period, inhabitants transitioned from gathering to producing their own food
heinrich schliemann - wealthy German businessman/archaeologist who discovered Troy in 1871 &
Mycenae (king of Agamemnon, leader of Greek invasion of Troy) in 1876
linear A - - 1st found clay tablets with Cretan language
- Can't decipher yet
- Highly bureaucratic form of record
Michael Ventris - - broke code of writing systems from late bronze age
- Found that Greek was the language of the Mycenaens
tholos tomb - Huge Round mount where Mycenaeans were buried, cylopses blocks, 1350-1250
pylos - - Contained 200ish villages
- 1250 sq miles, divided into 2 provinces and then districts (korete and prokorete), 2000 BC
chariot - - lightweight platform set atop 2 high spoked wheels and pulled by 2 horses
- carried 2 passengers
- later adapted for warfare
,thebes - - Ancient Greek city-state
- Rivaled Athens
- Destroyed by Alexander the Great in 4th century BC
iliad - Epic poem by Homer that depicts the Trojan War and heroism of Achilles
archaeans - bronze age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea
nestor - warrior, ruled pylos, ruled over Messenia, 1056
homer - Author of Odyssey and Iliad 750-700
minoan - 1st Aegean civilization
Mycenae took it over, bronze age, crete, 2700-1450 BC
thera - - Island in Greek Cyclades discovered by Dorian colonists
- Volcano erupted in middle bronze age (early Mycenaean times) little evidence
- Largest amount of Mycenaean/Cretan art found here
- Now Santorini -1600 BC
mycenae - - Greek civilization that led trojan war
- Hyper-organized, bureaucratic, advanced gov -1700-1100BC
megaron - - Large rectangular building that served as focal point of Mycenaean palaces
, - "Great hall" of the ruler continued in the Dark Age Chiefs
- In city-states, the ancient megaron achieved immortality as basic plan of Greek temple
wanax - Mycenaean king
tiryns - - Town in argolis
- In 1200 BC, one of the most important Mycenaean towns
athens - - Was admired/had focus for stability in 19th/20th century BC
- Fought wars with Sparta
- Has pantheon
odyssey - - Epic poem by Homer
- Narrates Odysseus on his journey home following the trojan war
hektor - - Trojan prince
- Major hero in trojan war
- Surpassed only by achilles
achilles - - Greatest of all the Greek warriors in the trojan war
- Son of mortal Peleus
indo-europeans - Language displaced the languages of nearly all the regions they spread to
Migrated into and changed the nature of inhabitants of prehistoric Greece
Franchthi Cave - - southeastern Greece, inhabited from 20,000-3000 BC
- Allowed archaeologists to reconstruct life in Greece from Stone age to Bronze age & appearance of 1st
complex societies
- Records shows that Greek life changed 12,000 years ago when ice sheets began to melt
- In beginning of Neolithic period, inhabitants transitioned from gathering to producing their own food
heinrich schliemann - wealthy German businessman/archaeologist who discovered Troy in 1871 &
Mycenae (king of Agamemnon, leader of Greek invasion of Troy) in 1876
linear A - - 1st found clay tablets with Cretan language
- Can't decipher yet
- Highly bureaucratic form of record
Michael Ventris - - broke code of writing systems from late bronze age
- Found that Greek was the language of the Mycenaens
tholos tomb - Huge Round mount where Mycenaeans were buried, cylopses blocks, 1350-1250
pylos - - Contained 200ish villages
- 1250 sq miles, divided into 2 provinces and then districts (korete and prokorete), 2000 BC
chariot - - lightweight platform set atop 2 high spoked wheels and pulled by 2 horses
- carried 2 passengers
- later adapted for warfare
,thebes - - Ancient Greek city-state
- Rivaled Athens
- Destroyed by Alexander the Great in 4th century BC
iliad - Epic poem by Homer that depicts the Trojan War and heroism of Achilles
archaeans - bronze age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea
nestor - warrior, ruled pylos, ruled over Messenia, 1056
homer - Author of Odyssey and Iliad 750-700
minoan - 1st Aegean civilization
Mycenae took it over, bronze age, crete, 2700-1450 BC
thera - - Island in Greek Cyclades discovered by Dorian colonists
- Volcano erupted in middle bronze age (early Mycenaean times) little evidence
- Largest amount of Mycenaean/Cretan art found here
- Now Santorini -1600 BC
mycenae - - Greek civilization that led trojan war
- Hyper-organized, bureaucratic, advanced gov -1700-1100BC
megaron - - Large rectangular building that served as focal point of Mycenaean palaces
, - "Great hall" of the ruler continued in the Dark Age Chiefs
- In city-states, the ancient megaron achieved immortality as basic plan of Greek temple
wanax - Mycenaean king
tiryns - - Town in argolis
- In 1200 BC, one of the most important Mycenaean towns
athens - - Was admired/had focus for stability in 19th/20th century BC
- Fought wars with Sparta
- Has pantheon
odyssey - - Epic poem by Homer
- Narrates Odysseus on his journey home following the trojan war
hektor - - Trojan prince
- Major hero in trojan war
- Surpassed only by achilles
achilles - - Greatest of all the Greek warriors in the trojan war
- Son of mortal Peleus
indo-europeans - Language displaced the languages of nearly all the regions they spread to
Migrated into and changed the nature of inhabitants of prehistoric Greece
