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23 Cards in this Set
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Megaron |
The large reception hall and throne room in a Mycenaean palace, fronted by an open, two columned porch |
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Sir Arthur Evans |
The archaeologist who unearthed the ruins of Knossos, Crete's leading city, in 1900.Father of Minoan ArchaeologyCoined term Minoan after Greek Myth of King Minos |
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shaft graves |
A term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium B.C.E. At the bottom of deep shafts lined with stone slabs, the bodies were laid out along with gold and bronze jewelry, implements, weapons, an |
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Wanax |
Liner b |
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Barbaros |
Savages |
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Geometric Style |
900- 700 BCE style of ancient Greek art, primarily of vase painting regularly spaced horizontal bands filled with sharply angular patterns |
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Kleros |
A plot of agricultural land granted to a citizen under the cleruchy system |
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Phalanx |
A body of troops formed in ranks who stand close together with their weapons and shields out |
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Electrum |
Money |
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Kore |
Women statue |
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Hesiod |
Greek poet; most famous poem was the Theogony, which was emblematic of common Greek identity at the time. He also wrote of the origin of the Greek gods. |
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Proxeny |
in ancient Greece was an arrangement whereby a citizen (chosen by the city) hosted foreign ambassadors at his own expense, in return for honorary titles from the state. |
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Hittitez |
people from central Anatolia who established an empire, traded metal and were a strong military power who used chariots; took down the Babylonian Empire |
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Pylos |
In the southern Peloponese, an unfortified castle with a megaton, court, and single entrance. Contains an archive room where many Linear B tablets were found. Walls were made of rubble with timber framework and tie beams. Floors were plaster and prob |
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Thera |
A Cycladic island that was devastated by a major volcanic eruption during the Bronze Age. (Supposedly Atlantis) |
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Michael ventris |
Deciphered Linear B tablet in 1952 - it was about economic accounts. |
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Phoenica |
Civilization that developed the alphabet |
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Polythesim |
Believe in many gods. |
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Homeric epics |
Iliad & Odyssey. basis of much greek knowledge |
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Synoecism |
the assembly of many villages into one political city. Thucydides said that Theseus was responsible or forming Athens as unified territory by abolishing the separate counsils and governments of the small cities and making one deliberative assembly a |
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Bacchiads |
A royal clan in Corinth. A legendary Corinthian named Bacchis founded a new line of chiefs called Bacchiads, the descendants of Bacchis. |
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Oligarchy |
oligarchy a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. |
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Lyric poetry |
A form of poetry with rhyming schemes that express personal and emotional feelings. |
