Chapter 1 Quizzes

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. At the peak of the socio-political pyramid of Mycenaean society is the ______.

lawagetas correct incorrect

basileus correct incorrect

wanax correct incorrect

kosmetor laon correct incorrect

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. The movement of peoples known collectively as the ______ is the subject of a hypothesis that explains the similarities among a broad spectrum of languages across Europe and Asia.

Austroasiatic correct incorrect

Indo-Europeans correct incorrect

Mycenaeans correct incorrect

Anglo-Frisians correct incorrect

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. What kind of site provides us with our knowledge of the earliest stages of Mycenaean civilization?

Temples correct incorrect

Fortresses correct incorrect

Graves correct incorrect

Sewers correct incorrect

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. The economies of Minoan palaces were based on what two connected practices?

Supply and demand correct incorrect

Inflation and taxation correct incorrect

Storage and redistribution correct incorrect

Taxes and paid military service correct incorrect

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. By shortly after what date can we say that Mycenaean kingdoms, and even Mycenaean civilization itself, had ceased to exist?

1275 BC correct incorrect

1214 BC correct incorrect

1100 BC correct incorrect

1000 BC correct incorrect

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. Discovered only in 1967, the site of ______ on the island of Thera (Santorini) is a remarkable example of a prosperous city heavily influenced by Minoan culture.

Akrotiri correct incorrect

Oia correct incorrect

Imerovigli correct incorrect

Vourvoulos correct incorrect

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. What is the name of the large, beehive-shaped tomb in which Mycenaean nobles began to inter their dead around 1500 BC?

Tholos correct incorrect

Mitato correct incorrect

Cist-grave correct incorrect

Megaron correct incorrect

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. Ancient Egyptian records refer to the ______, whom historians suspect of being involved in the destruction of the Mycenaean kingdoms and other Mediterranean civilizations.

"fire peoples" correct incorrect

Dorians correct incorrect

Aryans correct incorrect

"sea peoples" correct incorrect

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. What have the Linear B tablets revealed about Mycenaean religion?

That the Mycenaeans worshipped none of the gods we find in later Greek religion correct incorrect

That the Mycenaeans worshipped many of the same gods we find in later Greek religion correct incorrect

That Mycenaean religion was organized around the king and queen, who were identified with a divine ruling couple correct incorrect

That religious offerings were made in order to ensure the general prosperity of the Mycenaean state, and not to any named, identifiable gods correct incorrect

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. Which of the following ages saw the emergence of agriculture and the cultivation of domesticated plants and animals?

The Middle Paleolithic Age correct incorrect

The Neolithic Age correct incorrect

The Early Bronze Age correct incorrect

The Late Bronze Age correct incorrect

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. Which of the following excavated the Bronze Age sites of Mycenae and Troy, and helped to revolutionize our understanding of Greek prehistory?

Michael Ventris correct incorrect

Sir Arthur Evans correct incorrect

Alice Kober correct incorrect

Heinrich Schliemann correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not one of the arguments in favor of the hypothesis of a "Dorian invasion"?

It seems to be supported by a shift in burial customs throughout the mainland starting around 1000 BC correct incorrect

It accounts for the initial destruction of the Mycenaean palaces correct incorrect

It accounts for the strong presence of Doric speakers in the Peloponnese during the historical period correct incorrect

It seems to have been believed by the ancient Greeks themselves correct incorrect

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. What is the name given by archaeologists to the distinctive type of structure unearthed in Lerna and elsewhere?

Corridor house correct incorrect

Tholos correct incorrect

Fort type A correct incorrect

Pre-citadel correct incorrect

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. Linear B was revealed to be an early form of ______.

Latin correct incorrect

Linear A correct incorrect

Greek correct incorrect

an Egyptian dialect correct incorrect

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. The archives of which ancient empire record contact with a people named as the "Ahhiyawa," a name suggestive of one of Homer's names for the Greeks?

Assyrian correct incorrect

Egyptian correct incorrect

Persian correct incorrect

Hittite correct incorrect

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. The civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt had already reached high levels of sophistication and political organization by the Early Bronze Age in Greece.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. There appear to be no major differences, based on our available evidence, between Minoan and Mycenaean religious practices.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. The Mycenaean palace complexes throughout Greece formed a unified political 'nation,' with its capital at Mycenae.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Mycenaean pottery and metalwork are found not only on the Greek mainland and islands, but also in Egypt, Sicily, and southern Italy.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. The remains of the Mycenaean palace complexes that we see today were built in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries BC.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect