Classical Studies 1000 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Yamaha Motif, White Bull, Wetherlam
12 Oct 2018
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Classical Studies
1000
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Christ is born
BC
Greece: 3500-146 BCE
Rome: 750BCE-476CE
The Bronze Age:
Many artifacts made from bronze
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3500 BCE smelting became common
Smelting: when you melt metal
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Bronze is tin+copper
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Weapons are sheathed in bron
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Used in agriculture, plow is sh
more food
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Many settlements have popped up d
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Agriculture, farming, and settlemen
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First bronze instruments (3500BCE)
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2500BCE lead, silver, and gold becom
This implies social differentiati
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Some of the population have a
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The wealthy's demand for me
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Crete:
An island 75 km from mainland
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Minoan Empire- Empire of Crete
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Capital city is Knossos named after K
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Sir Arthur Evans- archeologist excav
empire of King Minos
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Knossos was powerful, left a lot of ar
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750
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The Bronze Age ( artifacts, society, technology)
Crete and Knossos
The Minoans
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AC
260BC = 260 BCE
Before Christ = before common era
260 CE = 260 AD
Common era = ano dominae
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mon
metal in a furnace to get rid of impurities
bronze
is sheathed in bronze- lasts longer and faster= planting more=
up due to the discovery of bronze
ent = positively affected
CE) - trinkets and pots
ecome evident
tiation
ave a greater accumulation of wealth, become distinguished
metal increased economy and defined the authority of leaders
ter King Minos
cavated Knossos, determined that what he discovered was the
t of art and archeology
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Document Summary
Used in agriculture, plow is sh more food. Sir arthur evans- archeologist excav empire of king minos. Common era = ano dominae mon metal in a furnace to get rid of impurities bronze is sheathed in bronze- lasts longer and faster= planting more= up due to the discovery of bronze ent = positively affected. Knossos was powerful, left a lot of ar. Knossos mythology (minotaur and theseus and how it depicts athenian lifestyle) Myth history is not fact but it is impo. In punishment to minos his wife pas doesn"t want to have sex with her cau. She gets pregnant and her child is a. Minos demands tribute to athenian to feed minotaur. Ariadne falls in love with theseus, d thread) Killing a monster and flee with a wif. Linear a and linear b are first types. Myceneans didn"t leave any written evidence as and may have demanded tribute. Questions about the content of the art ex.
