EXAM 1 CLA 210 Questions and
Answers
In what year did Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens go on the Italian Penisula - answer
40,000 BC
What year was the Paleolithic Age? - answer Pre-7000 BC
-Evidence of communities
-7200: date of oldest burial that we know of
What year was the Neolithic Age? - answer 7000-3000
-First permanent settlement in Greece
-Larger communities develop on western coast of Italian penisula
Middle Bronze Age is also known as: - answer Minoan
What happens during the Middle Bronze Age? - answer Indo-European speakers
come to Greece, bring local gods and customs
Conflicts in Lerna and central Greece
Crete: linear A and palaces emerge, called minoans and are not Greek
Settlement in Northern Italy by Indo-European speakers and native italians
Cultural and linguistic blending
Proto indo-european: a language that has to have existed but we don't know much else
about it
Linear A - answer -Records Minoan Language
-Used for record keeping at palaces
-Not related to Greek
-Not deciphered
What year was the Late Bronze Age? - answer 1600-1200
Linear B - answer -Script is related to Linear A
-Records a proto-Greek language = Mycenaean
-Deciphered in 1950's
-Used in mainland Greece
What happens during the Late Bronze Age AKA Mycenaean period? - answer -
Mycenae is main power in Greece who destroys Crete and Knossos
-Linear B emerges in 1450
-Other small kingdoms emerge
-Shaft graves
, Both Mycenaean and Minoan are - answer Pre-Greek
What year was the Trojan War? - answer 1250
What year was the Dark Age/Early Iron Age? - answer 1200-900
What happens during the Dark Age/Early Iron Age? - answer -Dark because we
know nothing about it, all vases were just geometric shapes and did not tell any story.
-Sea-Peoples: we don't know anything about who they were
-Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary decline.
-Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over.
-All literature is GONE
What year is the Late Dark Age/ Iron Age? - answer 900-750
-Greek alphabet is developed
-Rapid population growth, new trade development
-776: First Olympian games
What year is the Archaic Period/Ancient Greece? - answer 750-480
What happens during the Archaic Period? - answer -Rise of city-state (polis) in
mainland: Thebes, Athens, Sparta
-Persian conflict in 499 in Ionia
-Xerxes driven from greece in 479
-Greeks were named Greeks by the Romans
What year is the Classical Period? - answer 480-323
What happens during the Classical Period? - answer -First democracy.
-Athens is famous
-Rise of culture and literature (Socrates, Plato, Euripides, Xenophon)
-Where all the plays are written, reflection and philosophical questioning
What person transitioned between classical and hellenistic gree? - answer Alexander
the Great
What year is the Hellenistic Period? - answer 323-30
What happens during the Hellenistic Period? - answer -After the death of Alexander
the Great, Greece is torn apart by internal wars
-Rome provides peace, begins using Greece as base for wars in the East. Greeks adapt
Roman culture and Rome expands beyond Italy.
-Greece assimilates roman culture
-Hymns and poems were written
Importance of Linear A & B - answer -Both from minoans
Answers
In what year did Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens go on the Italian Penisula - answer
40,000 BC
What year was the Paleolithic Age? - answer Pre-7000 BC
-Evidence of communities
-7200: date of oldest burial that we know of
What year was the Neolithic Age? - answer 7000-3000
-First permanent settlement in Greece
-Larger communities develop on western coast of Italian penisula
Middle Bronze Age is also known as: - answer Minoan
What happens during the Middle Bronze Age? - answer Indo-European speakers
come to Greece, bring local gods and customs
Conflicts in Lerna and central Greece
Crete: linear A and palaces emerge, called minoans and are not Greek
Settlement in Northern Italy by Indo-European speakers and native italians
Cultural and linguistic blending
Proto indo-european: a language that has to have existed but we don't know much else
about it
Linear A - answer -Records Minoan Language
-Used for record keeping at palaces
-Not related to Greek
-Not deciphered
What year was the Late Bronze Age? - answer 1600-1200
Linear B - answer -Script is related to Linear A
-Records a proto-Greek language = Mycenaean
-Deciphered in 1950's
-Used in mainland Greece
What happens during the Late Bronze Age AKA Mycenaean period? - answer -
Mycenae is main power in Greece who destroys Crete and Knossos
-Linear B emerges in 1450
-Other small kingdoms emerge
-Shaft graves
, Both Mycenaean and Minoan are - answer Pre-Greek
What year was the Trojan War? - answer 1250
What year was the Dark Age/Early Iron Age? - answer 1200-900
What happens during the Dark Age/Early Iron Age? - answer -Dark because we
know nothing about it, all vases were just geometric shapes and did not tell any story.
-Sea-Peoples: we don't know anything about who they were
-Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary decline.
-Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over.
-All literature is GONE
What year is the Late Dark Age/ Iron Age? - answer 900-750
-Greek alphabet is developed
-Rapid population growth, new trade development
-776: First Olympian games
What year is the Archaic Period/Ancient Greece? - answer 750-480
What happens during the Archaic Period? - answer -Rise of city-state (polis) in
mainland: Thebes, Athens, Sparta
-Persian conflict in 499 in Ionia
-Xerxes driven from greece in 479
-Greeks were named Greeks by the Romans
What year is the Classical Period? - answer 480-323
What happens during the Classical Period? - answer -First democracy.
-Athens is famous
-Rise of culture and literature (Socrates, Plato, Euripides, Xenophon)
-Where all the plays are written, reflection and philosophical questioning
What person transitioned between classical and hellenistic gree? - answer Alexander
the Great
What year is the Hellenistic Period? - answer 323-30
What happens during the Hellenistic Period? - answer -After the death of Alexander
the Great, Greece is torn apart by internal wars
-Rome provides peace, begins using Greece as base for wars in the East. Greeks adapt
Roman culture and Rome expands beyond Italy.
-Greece assimilates roman culture
-Hymns and poems were written
Importance of Linear A & B - answer -Both from minoans
