Chapter 01 True/False Quiz

. The early inhabitants of Greece developed agriculture during the Neolithic Age.

. The Greeks began making and using bronze weapons and implements around 3000 BC.

. The Greeks invented bronze and exported it elsewhere in Europe

. The early inhabitants of Greece developed agriculture during the Neolithic Age.

. The Greeks began making and using bronze weapons and implements around 3000 BC.

. The Greeks invented bronze and exported it elsewhere in Europe

. What we consider "civilization" first developed in Mesopotamia.

. Heinrich Schliemann's discoveries of Troy and Mycenae proved that there had been highly developed Greek civilizations during the Bronze Age.

. Cretan palaces like Cnossus performed only one function: housing the king.

. In addition to taking in food and goods from villages, the Cretan palaces redistributed them through wages and commerce.

. Although the Greeks traded with the Cretans, they did not adopt the Cretan writing system.

. Beginning around the fifteenth century BC, powerful families displayed their wealth by building shaft graves instead of large tholos tombs.

. While the Mycenaean kings of the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries BC built their palaces on Cretan models, they adapted them to withstand attacks by rival kingdoms.

. Despite the small size of the Mycenaean kingdoms, the Mycenaean trading network extended from Egypt in the east and as far as Macedonia in the north.

. Michael Ventris was the linguist responsible for deciphering Linear B.

. Mycenaeans did not worship Greek gods such as Zeus.

. The Mycenaeans employed slaves both in and out of the palace.

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