Greek quiz 2

Heinrich Schliemann

• Unknown group of strong warriors who crushed the Hittites and destroyed cities in southwest Asia, who fought the Egyptians for 50 years.
• a monumental gateway to Mycenae, over which loomed two heraldic lions, their feet resting on altars.
• Discovered Troy in Turkey. He ravaged the site so that he could prove it was Troy. He also found Mycenae in 1876.
• The script used by the Mycenaeans; an early from of Greek

Troy

• A circular beehive-shaped tomb covered by a corbeled arch
• source of information about the economic conditions and political organization of the Mycenean world.
• A kingdom that was destroyed by the Greeks in the Trojan War. It is located on the western coast of Asia Minor
• Listed all the tribes of Myecae that sent people to fight at Troy.

Troy importance

• Found in Grave Circle A
• Central to the Iliad, city-state destroyed by the Myceneans
• When and where was the toumba heroon found?
• Mycenae

Troy location

• a city situated in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as Asia Minor, now known as Anatolia in modern Turkey, near the southwest mouth of the Dardanelles strait and northwest of Mount Ida. Near Hisarlik
• source of information about the economic conditions and political organization of the Mycenean world.
• First cause of Bronze age collapse
• A circular beehive-shaped tomb covered by a corbeled arch

Troy relations

• they were friendly with the Hittites and had treaties with them
• Central to the Iliad, city-state destroyed by the Myceneans
• Fourth cause of Bronze age collapse
• Unknown group of strong warriors who crushed the Hittites and destroyed cities in southwest Asia, who fought the Egyptians for 50 years.

Mycenae

• Knossos, Pylos, Khania, mainland in Thebes, and Aghios Vasileios.
• Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy. Near Corinth
• in Messenia in the western peloponnese.
• An architectural form consisting of a columned porch, vestibule, and large hall with a hearth in the center. The megaron has deep roots in the Aegean region, being found first in the Neolithic villages of Sesklo and Dimini and reappearing during the Late Bronze Age as the central feature of many of the Mycenaean palaces.

Lion Gate

• Near East and Crete influence
• a monumental gateway to Mycenae, over which loomed two heraldic lions, their feet resting on altars.
• described on a tablet in linear B found at Pylos. Large scale production
• Listed all the tribes of Myecae that sent people to fight at Troy.

Cyclopean Masonry

• 1600-1500 BCE
• Mycenaean word for kIng
• A method of stone construction, named after the mythical Cyclopes, using massive, irregular blocks without mortar, characteristic of the Bronze Age fortifications of Tiryns and other Mycenaean sites.
• Near East and Crete influence

shaft graves (Grave Circles A & B)

• First cause of Bronze age collapse
• Central to the Iliad, city-state destroyed by the Myceneans
• believed to be several people, there is no Homer in the sense of a real person.
• Royal burial grounds purposely put within Mycenae when it was built, There were six shafts with 19 burials, Circle A was just inside the Lion Gate.

Lion Hunt Dagger

• Mycenae
• a classic Greek tale of heroism written by the ninth-century Greek author, Homer
• Fourth cause of Bronze age collapse
• A circular beehive-shaped tomb covered by a corbeled arch