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CLCV Exam 1
Question | Answer |
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Paleolithic (dates and describe 3 things) | 100,000-12.500 BC; human burials, acquisition of fire, language, hand tools, belief in GG emerges, cave paintings at Lascaux |
Mesolithic (dates and describe 3 things) | 12,500 - 8500 BC; improved hunting/fishing, smaller tools, bone/antler jewlery |
Neolithic (dates and describe 5 innovations and 2 places) | 8500-3000 BC.; agriculture, domestication of animals, towns, pottery, wheels; Jericho (stone fortifications and skull worship) Catalhoyuk (bull shrines, fresco paintings) |
Bronze Age | 3000-1200 BC |
Early Bronze Age | 3000-2000 BC |
Middle Bronze Age | 2000-1600 BC |
Late Bronze Age | 1600-1200 BC |
Iron Age/Dark Age/Proto Geometric | 1200-900 BC |
Geometric | 900-700 BC |
Development of Agriculture (date) | 10,000 BC |
Domestication of Goats (date) | 8500 BC |
Walls of Jericho (date) | 7800 BC |
Ceramic Pottery(date) | 6500 BC |
Invention of the Wheel (date) | 4500 BC |
Invention of Writing (date) | 3000 BC |
House of Tiles destroyed (date) + significance | 2250 BC; new greeks invaded pre greeks |
Battle of Qadesh (date) + significance | 1285 BC; Egyptians vs Hittities, no one won bc both sides exhausted |
Trojan War (date) + who fought who | 1265 BC; greeks vs Trojans |
Collapse of Bronze Age (date) | 1200 BC |
Alphabet appears in Greece (date) | 735 BC |
Hesiod writes Theogony (date) | 700 BC |
Name the cultures under early bronze age | Sumerians, Egyptians, Clycladic islanders, Lerna (early Helladic Greeks) |
Name the cultures under middle bronze age | Babylonians, Minoans, |
Name the cultures under the Late Bronze Age | Indoeuropeans(Hittites, Mycenaeans or Late Helladic Greeks), Semites (Ugaritians, Phoenicians, Hebrews) |
Name the culture under the Iron/ Dark age | Assyrians |
Name the 2 famous poets of the Geometric period | Hesiod, Homer |
Name all the Semitic cultures | Babylonians, Phoenicians, Ugaritarians, Hebrews, Assyrians |
Name all the Indo European cultures | Greeks, Romans, Hittites, Teutonic(germanic groups) |
Name the miscellaneous groups | Jericho, Catalhoyuk, Sumerian, Egyptians, Minoan, Sea People |
Homo Erectus | 2 million to 200,000 BC |
Neanderthal | 200,000-45,000 BC, |
Homo Sapiens | 50,000 BC - present |
Name the important titans | Oceanus, Kronos(Saturn), Rhea, Themis, Tethys, Mnemosyne |
Name the 3 Moirai | Clotho (spins thread) Lachesis (chooses length) atropos (cuts thread) |
Name the 4 important offspring of Night | Discord (eris), Hesperides, Fates (Moirai), Nemesis |
What do the hesperides do /where are they located | guard sacred garen, tree, serpent,Eden, located at Mt Atlas (far west) |
who are the 2 important daughters of Discord? | Lethe (forgetfullness) Ate (folly) |
Who is nemesis | goddess of vengeance |
who are the nerieids | sea nymp offspring of Nereus |
who are the oceanids | 300 offspring of Ocean + tethys |
who is ceto and phorcys | brother and sister offspring of Pontus+Gaia who create the sea monsters |
who is iris | messenger goddess and rainboww |
who is ladon | snake goddess in garden of Hesperides |
Name the celestial gods | Helios (sun) selene (moon, eos (dawn) boreas (north wind) and zephyr (west wind) |
Who is Nike? who are her parents | goddess of victory, daughter of pallas and Styx |
Who are power and force? | offspring of Pallas and Styx |
What is mt dikte | cave where Zeus grew up and got strong |
Titanomachy means? | battle of titans (zeus, 100 handeds, cyclopes power, force, styx) vs kronos |
What is omphalos? where is it located | stone that Rhea feeds Kronos pretending its Zeus. Delphi @ mt parnassus (womb of the world) |
Who is ishtar? | Sumerian Great Goddess |
who is shamash? | Sumerian sun god |
Who is Ba'al? | Chief Phoenician celestial god |
Who is tiamat? | Babylonian saltwater goddess |
Who is Anu? | babylonian Sky god |
Who is Marduk? | Chief babylonian divinity |
Who is Teshub? | zeus of the hitttites |
What is genesis | old testament, creation story |
what is enuma elish? | babylonian creation myth |
What is kumarbi myth? | Hittite creation myth |
Who is George smith? | person who published enuma elish |
Who is Sir James J Frazer? | british anthropologist, father of modern anthropology |