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15 Cards in this Set
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Historical Troy is widely thought to be located in the country of ______
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Turkey
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Classical history put Troy near the town of _____
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Bunar-Bashi
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Given this location, it would have been impossible for Achilles to pursue Hector around the walls because of the _____
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mountains
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The ____ ____ would have lain between the two armies. This is not mentioned in the Illiad
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River Meneres
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Homer's description of the battle is extremely ___, as if he were there.
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detailed
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The archaeologist/businessman ____ discovered ruins near ____ in ____.
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Heinrich Schliemann
Hissarlik 1873. |
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He found the ruins of ____ towns layered one ___ ___ ____.
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Seven
one over the other. |
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These towns do not ____to the time of the Trojan war which is thought to have occured around around ____.
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correspond
1200 BC |
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Another problem is that the Hissarlik ruins are the size of a _____. Homer's Troy held at least _____ men so Troy should have been _____.
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village.
50000 larger. |
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The distance of Hissarlik to the sea is ____. This makes it too small to install an army of _____ soldiers.
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5 km
65000 |
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The Turkish valley is too ___ to have contained the ____ rivers described by Homer as well as the __ towns laid to waste by ____.
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small
14 11 Achilles |
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Troy was called the ____ city while Hissarlik lies only _____ above the surrounding plain.
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steep
30 |
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On the coast, there is no __ capable of receiving ____ vessels as mentioned in the book.
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bay
1200 |
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Homer's ___ and written material from the ___ ___ do not match with purported site of Troy.
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topography
bronze age |
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Neither the ____ ____ of the ____ living in Asia MInor nor the _____ ____ ____ tablets from Greece ever mention the city of Troy or a Trojan War.
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written documents
hittites Greek Linear B |
