Study Guide MT2 Flashcards

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TERMS: Mycenaeans

Answer 1

- Early Greek civ - gained control of Aegean region after decline of Minoans - Endemic warfare (Bronze weaponry, iconography, citadels) - Numerous associated villages around elite citadels with elaborate road networks - Written records (Linear B) - Elaborate elite burial culture (Shaft graves, later monumental tombs of stone) - Decline for unknown reasons (maybe expansion of pre-classical greek states a factor)

Answer 2

A caldera is a volcanic feature formed by the collapse of a volcano into itself, making it a large, special form of volcanic crater. A caldera collapse is usually triggered by the emptying of the magma chamber beneath the volcano, as the result of a large volcanic eruption.

Answer 3

- Runically inscribed stone found in American middle west - Real runes, wrong language (19th century swedish) - Fake, why is it in interior U.S. without other artifacts or sites?

Answer 4

The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American civilization archeologists date from about 800 CE to 1600 CE, varying regionally.

Answer 5

13,000BC, Theory that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas Clovis People with their fluted projectile points rapidly spread out across America following game. The “fluted” projectile points of the Clovis and Folsom varieties represent elements of the stone tool kits of not the first, but the first widespread cultures in the New World. ■ Small populations ■ Probably very mobile ■ Hunters and gatherers – Very characteristic fluted points, often associated with hunting megafauna – Frequently hunted medium and small mammals, birds and fish – Highly dependent on gathering locally available plants ■ Elaborate caching practices

Answer 6

Tons of sites found Paleocoastal tools 12,000-11,000 BP (PRE-CLOVIS) Buttermilk Creek Complex, Texas 16,000 BP (PRE-CLOVIS) Arlington Springs Woman, Santa Rosa Island, California (PRE-CLOVIS) Monte Verde, Chile (PRE-CLOVIS) North American Sites (PRE-CLOVIS) Alaskan sites (PRE-CLOVIS) Beringian Sites (PRE CLOVIS, BEFORE 13,000 BP)

Answer 7

20,000 to 15,000 BP The Solutrean hypothesis on the peopling of the Americas claims that the earliest human migration to the Americas took place from Europe, during the Last Glacial Maximum. This hypothesis contrasts with the mainstream view that the North American continent was first reached after the Last Glacial Maximum, by people from North Asia, either by the Bering land bridge (i.e. Beringia), or by maritime travel along the Pacific coast, or by both. Western Europe (France and Spain) Very cold throughout northern hemisphere in late Solutrean times Heat-treated flint to make sophisticated stone tools Fine pressure flaking Finely made, bifacially flaked, symmetrical, leafs-shaped projectile points Bas-Relief Art

Answer 8

Paleoindian Period: 12,000-10,000 BC The Paleoindian Period refers to a time approximately 12,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age when humans first appeared in the archeological record in North America.

Answer 9

The Vinland map is claimed to be a 15th-century mappa mundi with unique information about Norse exploration of North America chemical analyses have identified one of the major ink ingredients as a 20th-century artificial pigment FAKE

Answer 10

The Vikings explored to the West and had established colonies beyond Greenland

Answer 11

- Alphabetic: 1 symbol = 1 phoneme | - Alphabetic usually have <40 characters

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- Logographic: 1 symbol = 1 word (mandarin) | - Logophonetic/logographic have upwards of 5000

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- Syllabic: 1 symbol = 1 syllable (Japanese Hiragana) - Syllabic: typically 40-100 characters - Logosyllabic:

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Quipu (or khipu) was a method used by the Incas and other ancient Andean cultures to keep records and communicate information Using a wide variety of colours, strings, and sometimes several hundred knots all tied in various ways at various heights, quipu could record dates, statistics, accounts, and even represent, in abstract form, key episodes from traditional folk stories and poetry.

Answer 15

# FILL ME IN ...a volcano exploded? Santorini destroyed at the same time as the disappearing of Atlantis

Answer 16

Everywhere but Europe Antartica, Arctic, North/South America, Pacific, Australia Lots of places tended to have Chinese artefacts remaining. Emperor's coin in Africa etc. The historical nature of the documents revealed that China had a massive fleet of boats that were well beyond its age. It gave China one of the largest fleets in the world at the time.

Answer 17

Where was it located? Illinois, opposite from St. Louis What was its economy? Not in the slides???????? What was it architectural and urban layout? When did it fall? 1350

Answer 18

1. Indian Culture was too primitive 2. Mound culture was older than Indian culture 3. There were alphabetically inscribed tables in the mounds 4. Indians were never witnessed building mounds and had no knowledge of who had built them. 5. Metal objects found in the mounds were beyond the metallurgical skills of the Indians

Answer 19

To make his point, Plato makes Atlantis sound like a nearly insurmountable adversary. Plato’s detailed description of Atlantis was intended to impress the reader with its material wealth, technological sophistication, and military power. That the smaller, materially poorer, technologically less well endowed, and militarily weaker Athenians could defeat the Atlanteans imparts the fundamental message of Critias: It is not just wealth or power that is important in history; even more important is the way a people govern themselves. For Plato, the intellectual achievement of a perfect government and society is far more important—and triumphs over—material wealth or power.

Answer 20

1. Scholars should have a good idea of the type of script they are dealing with, 2. The corpus or database of texts should be large enough to allow effective comparisons, 3. The language should be known, 4. There should be a bilingual inscription or other clues to word meaning, 5. The cultural context of the script should be known, including names, places, historical details, etc

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