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Chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the two Greek societies? | Minoan and Mycenaean |
| What is the Minion Society? | A sophisticated society in Crete named after King Minos |
| What are Palaces? | Built by Inhabitants of Crete by 2000-1700 BC, which functioned as a tax collection storehouses and were rulers held power and controlled society. |
| What is Linear A? | A script where written symbols represented syllables rather than words, ideas, vowels, or consonants. It was used for detailed economic and commercial records. |
| What happened in Crete in the years 2200-1450 BC? | Crete was the principal center of Mediterranean commerce. |
| Crete was influenced by...? | Egypt and Phoenicia |
| Crete traded...? | Merchants of Crete exchanged wine, olive oil, and wool wire for manufactured goods, grains, and textiles. |
| What did Cretans do by 1600 BC? | They colonized Cyprus and many islands in the Aegean Sea because they had great source of copper and tin markets. |
| What happened to Polis' by 800 BC? | They became into very populated city states. These cities attracted population because of their commercial center, which led to expanding authority and taxation system. |
| Crete in 1100 BC? | They fell into foreign invasion, |
| Indo-Europeans migrations...? | They migrated to the Greek peninsula and Balkans and added the Linear A to their language of the Minoan society. However, it did not last much, since they created their own Linear B. |
| Who were the Mycenaean? | A society based on settlers that arrived to the forfeited lands and built agricultural communities. By 1500-1100 BC, they expanded their culture throughout the Greek Peninsula. |
| What did Mycenaean overpower? | They managed to overpower the Minoan society and take over the Cretan palaces and established craft workshops. |
| Mycenaean settlements...? | They settled Anatolia, Sicily, and southern Italy. Eventually, this led to conflicts with the city of Troy. |
| Chaos in 1100-800 BC...? | The constant chaos made it impossible to establish a strong government and productive agriculture. This led to total disaster; places were falling apart, population was declining by a major number, and the Linear A and B vanished. |
| What was the World of the Polis? | A new era and beginning for the Greek empire after the great chaos. |
| What is Polis? | a ancient greek city-state created for political and ideal philosophical purposes. |
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