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(His) Unit 4:P1
Ancient Greece: The Homeric Age
Question | Answer |
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Why is it named the Homeric Age? | Because of Homer's stories |
What is Greece made up of? | Islands, Isthmases, and Penesusuluas |
Arable | How easy the land is to grow |
Troy | An important city that sits on the Helenspont |
Helenspont | The only passage (by water) to the Black Sea |
Mount. Olympics | The place where the "gods" live |
Thernoploae | Means "hot gates" and is where many famouse wars were fought on earth |
Attica | The most densly populated place in Greece (Athens) |
Delphi | The place you would go to get an Orical |
Orical | A reverse prophet |
Corinthian Penesula | Important places in the New Testament |
Peloponnesus | The rockest places in Greece, and is 80 miles from Sparta to Athens |
The Agean Sea | Shallow and the weather is very unpredicatble to people resort to island hopping |
Mycenaean | The first people on the mainland who were evendualy run out by the sea people |
Trojan War | Against the Mycenaean people and king Aganine after his wife Helen was kidnapped. |
The lliad | Tells the tales of the Trojain War |
Odyssey | Tell the Tales of a guy named Odyssey trying to get back home (takes him over 10 years) |
Inestible | to big to think of |
Arete | having good virture |
Hoplite | An armored foot shoilder |
What did the hoplies wear? | Greives, chestarmor, sheilds, large helmets (with plums on the top made out of horse hair), a short sword (used for emercenyies), and a spear |
How much did there armor weight? | 100lbs |
How tall was the average Greek male? | 5'4'' |
Why do scholars think the Hoplite was one of the most crediable was to fight? | Because it was easy to teach, you didn't have very many causalties, and it only last a very short amount of time. |
Dodekatheon | 12 gods |
What were the 12 gods? | Apollo, Arthumas, Zues, Hermes, Hestiea, Ares, Positeon, Athena, Aphrodite, Demeter, Hera, Hephestus |
Did the Greek gods have Ampliefied Humanity? | Yes |
What does Polythiesm lead to? | Polythiesm-->Ampliefied Humanity-->Cosmic Vending Machine |