Download 16 Test I. Greece. Ch. 1-8 Study Guide

Ancient History
Study Guide: Ch. 1-8 Test
25 January 2013
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Part I. Map
Be able to identify the following locations.
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Mt. Olympus
Aegean Sea
Mediterranean
Crete
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Ilion (Troy)
Athens
Sparta
Knossos
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Corinth
Mycenae
Argos
Peloponnese
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Peisistratus
Hippias
Damocles
Agamemnon
Part II. Figures
Review the significance of each of the following figures.
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Herodotus
Draco
Thucydides
Greek gods
Minos
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Homer
Sappho
Solon
Cleisthenes
Isagoras
Part III. Dates
Be able to match each of the following events to the correct date.
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1200-900 – Dark age of Greece
900-750 century – Late Dark Age
750-490 – Archaic Age
6000 – Minoans appear on island of Crete
2000 – Minoans begin to build palaces
1900 – Mycenaean migrate to Greece
1800 – (around) Linear A developed
1700 – earthquake damages palaces; rebuilt
larger
1700-1500 – Thera erupts
1600 – Mycenaean cities develop and fortify
(Mycenae, Tyrins, Pylos, etc.)
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1450 – Minoan civilization collapses;
Mycenae conquers Crete; Linear B develops
1400-1200 Height of Mycenaean civilization
1200 – Destruction of Troy; Sea people
destroy Hatti and attack Mycenaean
civilization (perhaps).
776 – Greeks hold their first Olympics
750 – Homer composes the Iliad and
Odyssey
600 – Solon reforms laws
527 – Peisistratus tyrant
514 – Hippias
508 – Isagoras
Part IV. Major Ideas
Be able to respond to and discuss each of the following questions.
1. What are the prominent features of Greek geography? How did these features affect Greek life?
How does Greek geography differ from Mesopotamian and Egyptian geography?
2. Since they did not have a unified nation, what features defined a Greek? I.e., what made a
“Greek” a “Greek”?
Ancient History
Study Guide: Ch. 1-8 Test
25 January 2013
3. How does Thucydides describe the factors that brought about civilization on Crete and the
neighboring islands under king Minos? What mythological evidence suggests that the Minoans
dominated their Mycenaean neighbors?
4. What do the archeological artifacts on Crete demonstrate about the Minoan civilization? Review
the following artifacts specifically: the storage rooms beneath the Knossos palace, Linear A
tablets, Throne Room, frescos of women, Minoan pottery & images in Egypt, images of bull
leaping.
5. What were the features of Minoan mythology? What were the military practices of the Minoans?
6. What was the origin of the Mycenaeans? What factors slowed the growth of their civilization
according to Thucydides? Why did they build fortified cities? What are cyclopean walls? What
was their political arrangement?
7. What was the effect of the volcanic eruption on Thera on the Minoans? Why did the Minoans
finally collapse?
8. How were the Mycenaeans influenced by the Minoans?
9. What archeological evidence points toward the Trojan War? What is the story of the Trojan War
according to the Iliad, Odyssey, and other mythological sources? What was the importance of the
Iliad to the Greeks?
10. What brought about the fall of the Mycenaean civilization and caused the Dark Age?
11. What were the main characteristics of the Dark Age and Late Dark Age?
12. What is the significance of myths in the study of history? Who were the major Greek gods and
goddesses? What role did the Greeks believe that gods played in the lives of men? What were the
gods’ human-like characteristics? How do the Greek gods resemble those of Mesopotamia?
13. What is the Greek myth of creation? How do the stories of Cronus and Zeus demonstrate the
chaos inherent in creation? What is the preeminent flaw in men evident in the myths of Phaethon,
Arachne, Tantalus, and Daedalus and Icarus?
14. Who were the Greek bards and what was their importance?
15. What were the principle features of the Archaic Age? What led to the Greeks’ aggressive
colonization efforts? What is a polis? What are its principle features?
16. What was the political and economic situation in Athens around 600BC?
17. Who was Solon and what were his four legislative reforms? How did his laws move Athens
toward a democratic system?
18. Who is Peisistratus? How did he come to power, and what kind of government did he form? What
laws did he enact to bolster the Athenian economy?
19. How was Peisistratus’ family driven from power?
20. How did Cleisthenes found democracy in Athens? What were his motivations?