Deck 19: Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans

Question 1

Anatolia, an early player in the great regional exchange networks as early as 8000 B. C., traded __________.

A) only metals
B) salt
C) copper and obsidian
D) spices

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In about 2300 B. C. the settlement known to archaeologists as Troy II flourished at which of the following sites?

A) Hissarlik
B) Çatalhöyük
C) Alaçahöyök
D) Kultepe

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Toward the end of the third millennium B. C., __________-speaking peoples infiltrated Anatolia from the northwest.

A) Sumerian
B) Indo-European
C) Indo-Aryan
D) Indo-Iranian

Answer 3

B

Question 4

After the third millennium B. C., the volume of trade between Anatolia and __________ reached new heights, as the two areas were becoming part of an ever more closely meshed economic system.

A) Athens
B) Cyprus
C) Mesopotamia
D) Greece

Question 5

The__________ rose to political power before 1650 B.C. by judiciously melding conquest and astute political maneuvering.

A) Assyrians
B) Hittites
C) Phoenicians
D) Greeks

Question 6

What was the ultimate goal of diplomatic and military activity between the kingdoms of Egypt and Hittite?

A) to control trade of the eastern Mediterranean
B) to maintain peace in the eastern Mediterranean
C) the conquest of land
D) to exercise political influence

Question 7

What find offered a dramatic reflection of the truly international nature of eastern Mediterranean trade at the height of the Hittites' power?

A) the Uluburun ship
B) records from the walls of the temple of Karnak in Thebes
C) Akkadian cuneiform records of the peace treaty between Egypt and Hittite
D) two Phoenician cargo ships

Question 8

The capital of the Hittite kings was __________.

A) Uluburun
B) Kanesh
C) Boghazkoy
D) Akkadia

Question 9

The finds from the Uluburun ship showed trade of __________.

A) blue glass disks and ingots from Uruk
B) Sardinian pottery
C) copper from Mycenaea
D) maize from Tenohtitlan

Question 10

Iron was first smelted in perhaps __________ in the highlands immediately south of the Black Sea.

A) 2500 B.C.
B) the first millennium B.C.
C) the first millennium A.D.
D) A.D. 500

Question 11

The undoing of the Hatti's came about from __________.

A) a lack of maritime power and a rigid feudal system
B) a lax feudal system
C) too large of a population
D) too small of a population

Question 12

The first __________ came into prominence by acting as middlemen in the recovering trade of raw materials and manufactured goods.

A) Assyrians
B) Greeks
C) Phoenicians
D) Israelis

Question 13

__________ trade was based on olive oil, wine, metal ore and tools, marble vessels and figurines, and pottery.

A) Aegean
B) Greek
C) Phoenician
D) Assyrian

Question 14

Sailing vessels appear on Cretan seals dating to approximately __________.

A) 5000 B.C.
B) 2000 B.C.
C) 500 B.C.
D) A.D. 500

Question 15

The development of the __________ civilization of Crete was likely the result of many local factors, among them the intensive cultivation of the olive and the grapevine.

A) Greek
B) Mycenaean
C) Minoan
D) Theban

Question 16

__________ reflect at least nine periods of Minoan civilization at the later levels of the Knossos site.

A) Metal tool styles
B) Pottery styles
C) Seals
D) Figurines

Question 17

The most remarkable Minoan art depicted dances and religious ceremonies including __________.

A) bloodletting sacrifices of the king
B) marriages
C) acrobats leaping along the backs of bulls
D) the annual olive harvest

Question 18

Which of the following acts of nature could have weakened Minoan civilization and accelerated a decline?

A) an earthquake destroying the Palace of Knossos
B) a flood
C) the eruption of Santorini
D) a Tsunami

Question 19

The Myceneans refined a form of script that was developed by the __________.

A) Minoans
B) Sumerians
C) Egyptians
D) Hittites

Question 20

Like classical Greece, __________ civilization, with its city-states, was more of a unity of cultural tradition and trade than a political reality.

A) Phoenician
B) Minoan
C) Mycenaean
D) Etruscan

Question 21

The __________ inherited the mantel of classical Greece and added their own distinctive culture to its foundation.

A) Aegeans
B) Minoans
C) Romans
D) Phoenicians

Question 22

Explain the importance and the vastness of Phoenician trade.

Question 23

Evaluate the theory regarding intensive cultivation of grape and olive crops being related to the rise of Minoan civilization on Crete. What are arguments against this idea?

Question 24

Who were the Mycenaeans? What was their writing system and how was it related to Minoan culture?