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Midterms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Keros (Week 1) | Early Bronze Age Cycladic site famous for "Dhaskalio" and the concentration of broken marble figurines. |
| Palace of Knossos (Week 2) | The largest and most famous Minoan palace site on Crete, associated with the labyrinth and King Minos. |
| Mycenae (Week 2) | Major Bronze Age citadel on the Greek mainland, featuring Cyclopean walls, the Lion Gate, and Shaft Graves. |
| Lefkandi (Week 5) | Euboean settlement active during the Protogeometric period, famous for its monumental apsidal building containing wealthy elite burials. |
| Phoenicians (Map region) | Coastal region of the Levant (modern-day Lebanon, coastal Syria, and northern Israel) known for seafaring city-states like Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos. |
| Olympia (Week 5) | Major Panhellenic sanctuary in the Peloponnese dedicated to Zeus, site of the ancient Olympic Games. |
| Delphi (Week 6) | Panhellenic sanctuary on the slopes of Mount Parnassus housing the Oracle of Apollo and the Pythian Games. |
| Kerameikos Cemetery (Week 6) | The primary cemetery of ancient Athens, located just outside the Dipylon Gate, famous for monumental grave markers like large geometric amphorae and stele. |
| Phaleron Cemetery (Week 6) | An early coastal cemetery of Athens containing diverse burial customs, including mass graves and evidence of political unrest or execution. |
| Etruria (Map region) | Region of central Italy (primarily modern Tuscany, parts of Umbria and Lazio) inhabited by the Etruscan civilization. |
| François Tomb (Week 7) | Etruscan chamber tomb in Vulci famous for its extensive and unique fresco paintings depicting mythological and historical scenes of local Etruscan and Roman conflict. |
| Selinunte (Week 7) | Greek colony (apoikia) on the southwestern coast of Sicily known for its monumental Archaic and Classical temples. |
| Classical Athens (Week 8) | The dominant cultural, naval, and democratic political powerhouse of 5th-century BCE Greece. |
| The Athenian Acropolis (Week 8) | The sacred high rock of Athens rebuilt under Pericles in the mid-5th century BCE to house monumental structures like the Parthenon, Erechtheion, and Temple of Athena Nike. |