Chapter 5: Exam Review

Define: Mycenaeans

• a seafaring people who, around 1100 B.C. began trading and founding colonies all around the Mediterranean
• an Indo-Eurpoean people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C.
• one of the nomadic groups who settled on the Anatolian peninsula around 1500 B.C. 
• a seafaring and trading people that moved from the Island of Crete to the Greek mainland about 2000-1400 B.C. 

Define: Trojan War  

• a war in which the Trojans built a wood horse and used it to defeat the city-state of Sparta in 2017 B.C.
• a war lasting from 431 to 404 B.C. in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies
• a series of wars fought in the fifth century B.C. in which Greek-city states battled the people of Mesopotamia
• a ten-year war fought around 1200 B.C. in which an army of Mycenaeans attacked a trading post in Anatolia

Define: Dorians

• a seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete from about 2000 to 1400 B.C.
• an Indo-European people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C.
• a seafaring people of Southwest Asia, who around 1100 b.c. began to trade and established colonies throughout the Mediterranean region.
• a Greek-speaking people that, according to tradition, migrated into mainland Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization

Define: Homer

• The ancient Greek storyteller and the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
• The historian who told us about the civilization, language, art, science, and literature of the Greeks
• A storyteller who told us about an ancient kingdom north of Greece, whose ruler Philip II conquered Greece
•  A classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy

Define: myths  

• traditional stories about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.
• traditional stories sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated and always about animals
• slow sentimental or romantic poems
• spoken or written accounts of connected events 

Define: epics 

• a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious
• a slow sentimental or romantic poem 
• long narrative poems celebrating the deeds of legendary or traditional heroes
• a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

Name the body of water located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas.

• Sea of Okhotsk 
• Black Sea
• Ionian Sea
• Aegean Sea

Define: polis  

• a public open space used for assemblies and markets
• a Greek city-state—the fundamental political unit of ancient Greece after about 750 B.C.
• a fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city
• an antechamber, hall, or lobby next to the outer door of a building 

Define: Persian Wars

• three wars fought between Ancient Carthage and the Greek Republic
• wars fought around 1200 B.C., in which an army led by Mycenaean kings attacked the independent trading city of Persia
• wars lasting from 431 to 404 B.C., in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies
• a series of wars in the fifth century B.C., in which Greek city-states battled an Empire from Mesopotamia 

Define: acropolis

• a fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city
• a Greek city-state—the fundamental political unit of ancient Greece after about 750 B.C
• a public open space used for assemblies and markets 
• a peninsula and geographic region in southern Greece