ARKY 325

ARKY 325 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+ The heroic Mycenaean’s - Homer wrote the Iliad describing King Agamemnon's heroic battle against Troy - Not sure if he was a real king - Agamemnon's brother's wife Helen was kidnapped by Paris a Trojan prince - War went on for years until Odysseus' Wooden Horse defeats the Trojans - written many centuries after the Mycenaean existed Mycenae Discovery - believed the works of Homer were real and tried to prove i...

ARKY 325 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+ The Aegean - Bronze Age societies 3000 BC *- Trade - wine, oil, textiles ceramics - gold, silver, copper and tin on some islands Mainland Greece *- Clear evidence of social complexity in the Peloponnese Peninsula and the Cycladic Islands - the House of Tiles *- mud brick building, enclosed walls, circular towers - terracotta roof Franchthi Cave, Greece - occupied by hunter gatherers from the end of the Ice Age - earliest...

ARKY 325 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+ Civilization - The 5 characteristics -concentration of surpluses -cities -full-time specialization labor -class based societies -state organization with permanent government secondary characteristics of complex societies -monumental public works -long-distance trade -standardized, monumental artwork -writing -arithmetic kinship relation between 2 or more persons that is based on common ancestry or marriage state pol...

ARKY 325 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+ Where did the two poles of Andean civilization develop? - one along north coast of Peru - one along south-central Andes What did the northern Andes consists of - Peruvian coastal plain crossed by 40 short rivers - 4 major centers; 2 largest= Chacama-Moche and Motupe-Lambayeque/Jequetepeque area What did the southern Andes consist of - included to Altiplano, Lake Titicaca basin, highland Bolivia and parts of Argentina and N. C...

ARKY 325 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+ What was the last MA culture to be discovered? Olmec Which culture lacked a fully developed writing system? Olmec Who created the colossal stone heads and why? The Olmec, portraits of rulers as helmets identified the wearer What did rulers sit on? Thrones that looked like altars What were Olmec motifs? Were-jaguars and naturalistic humans What culture was San Lorenzo a part of? Olmec What was found at San Lorenzo? Large...

ARKY 325 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+ What caused surplus? Irrigation Theories - Food surplus, diversified farming economies, and irrigation agriculture accepted elements of Childe's theory - Many early states emerge in dry river valleys - James Henry Breasted ca. 1916 suggested that the exceptional fertility of the Nile and the Euphrates floodplains was primary cause of rise of states in these valleys - the "Fertile Crescent Hypothesis" - Floods pr...

ARKY 325 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+ Who did the first archaeological research? an ancient civilization who was Nabondius and what did he do? - king of Babylon - excavated the temple of Ur in Mesoptamia about 2.5k yrs ago in order to better understand Sumerian culture - this work contributes to knowledge we have today - his motives were political and he wanted to have a more prestigious rulership Italian Renaissance rebirth of Classical (Greece/Rome) art/archit...

ARKY 325 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+ tomb 100- hierankopolis only pre-dynastic painted tomb known, scenes of hunting, warfare scenes similar to those seen in later times final states of the predynastic period in Egypt settlements shift to floodplain and away from the desert, abandon pastoralism and intensify agri with irrigation increase in production of fine goods proto states in Egypt Buto, Memphis (lower) This, Naqada, Hierakonpolis (upper) political structu...

ARKY 325 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+ Hassunan Culture sites: Hassuna, Yarim Tepe downslope from Harmo, nearer to upper mesopotamia still within the 300 mm isohyet farming villages: ca 8500 m2 in size Samarran Culture site names: Hassuna, Samarra, Tell Es-Sawwan, Chogamami down-river, on or beyond the limits of dry land farming, signs of irrigation chogamami: 6 ha, 1000+ people richly painted pottery, stamp seals, potters marks stratum endogamy marrying wit...