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1. The best of its kind. 2. A style marked by the qualities of: clarity, simplicity, balance, proportion, regularity. 3. Foundations laid in the Aegean world. |
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Over 2000 Greek Islands of which 151 sare inhabited. AKA Cycladic cultires. |
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The Greek called themselves Hellas. The people as a whole were called Hellenes. |
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Noah's 4th son whose name means Greece. |
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Greeks were comitted to the role of what? |
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The individual intellect shaping the destiny of the community |
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Scholas believe civlization arose from Where? |
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Precursors to Classical Greek CULTURE? |
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1. MINIOANS- 2000-1400 BCE 2. MYCENAEANS- 1600-1200 |
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Island (nesos) of Pelos (hero who conquers region and saves damsel.) |
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German excavator who discovered troy and therefore the mycenaeans |
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Island home to the minoans. 5th largest in Med. Sea at 8200 sq mi and is located 100k from the mainland |
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1. Migrants to the island of crete settled in Knossos. 2. Sea trades especially w/ cyprus and egypt. 3. Naturalists - sea life frescoes 4. Bull leapers 5. Concern for women 6. Concer for comfort and hygene 7. Highly developed society 8. Men beardless like egyptians 9. Bnoth sexes participated in public functions chief diety was female- mother goddess of anatolia |
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Elegant drawings bright colors profile or fullfaced view |
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Fertility, snakes, male divinity, human sacrifice |
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Linear a- not deciphered Linear b - deciphered early for of greek |
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Minotaur kept in labyrinth |
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Speculation as ti the end of minoan civilization |
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1 severe earth quake 2 tsunami 3 civil war 4 volcamic explosion on santerini, thera |
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- established on mnland greece - main city: mycenae - militant and aggressive - heaily fortified cities with cyclopean walls - attacked troy in 1200 bce - controlled all mainlnd greece |
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Did he excist? wrote iliand, odyssey |
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Heroic poem about trojan war, a war for hellen divine daughter of zeus, wife of menelas king of sparta, led by king agamemnon. Chronicles of achilles. |
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