Chapter 01 True/False Quiz

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

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

3. The Greeks invented bronze and exported it elsewhere in Europe

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

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

6. The Greeks invented bronze and exported it elsewhere in Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

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

16. Mycenaeans did not worship Greek gods such as Zeus.

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

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