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What are the 3 types of metals that helped to define an increase in technology throughout the ages (In order)?

Copper Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age

What were some pro and con of the first metal age?

Low melting point, easy to make into things, fragile and breaks down easily.

What was the second metal age and why was it better?

Bronze age, better because metal is stronger and durable.

What was the third metal age and why was it unique and challenging?

Iron age, challenging because it wasn’t easy to find it. High melting point, but stronger.

Sidero

the earliest word in Greek which means “from the stars” because they found it in meteorites

Metallurgy

study of metals

What was charcoal and why is it important?

 charcoal is black thingy that is made from ash allows to make fire hotter, faster, and longer

What were triremes used for?

Triremes were used for ramming and making holes in enemy vessels.

Why were Greek triremes the best and deadliest warships in the ancient world?

They were the deadliest warships in the ancient world because they were fast and agile.

Who invented triremes?

It was invented by the Greeks, but adapted by the Pheonician’s who made biremes.

When did the trireme stop being used?

5th century Triremes stopped being used when catapults were invented.

What was the Parthenon used for?

It is a site to worship Athena who is the goddess of wisdom, and war.

1. How long did Parthenon take to build?

Construction began in 490 BCE, but before it was finished, it was destroyed, and reconstructed in 438 BCE. It was finished in 432 BCE. 58 years.

How were the Parthenon columns built?

Cranes lift a block by knobs and place it on top of other blocks, and then shape it into a column

Who built the Parthenon? Please include details.

It was built Callicrates and Ictinus while under the supervision of Phidias

entasis

manipulation of perspective into seeing straight when really it is curved

What tasks could you use an astrolabe for? (The Smartphone of the Greek World)

 during the day figure out time

Where you are

How to get where you want

season

What is cement made of and why was it important to the Greek world?

Cement made houses and water systems. Greeks used cement for more than 700 years, and without concrete we would not be able to build as much stuff as we can now. Made of limestone and water. You could make structural pieces of the building. Mortar is the stuff you glue between.

Greece traded with many neighboring civilizations located near the Mediterranean sea. What were the names AND INFLUENCES of those civilizations?

Egypt- medicine

Persia- technology/ architecture

Peloponnesian- trade and culture

Mycenaean architecture is the first time that you see a corbeled arch.  A corbeled arch is:

a succession of stone blocks which span an opening like an arch(false arch) by having successive blocks farther inward as they rise on each side of the gap till they come together. Will not support weight over time.

According to myth the ________ were led from the city by a king named ____________, whose epic struggles were written about by the 8^th century BC poet Homer in two of history’s most famous tales; the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Mycenean and Agamemnon

Before the advent of democracy, many of these city states were led by a single ruler called a __________. Around 540 BC a  ________  named __________ came to rule over the island city state of Samos in the Eastern Aegean sea.

Tyrant, tyrant, Polycrates

In 480 BC, _______ defeated the Persians at the Battle of  _________ against incredible odds. Because the Greeks defeated Persia, its young democracy was saved and able to flourish.

Greece, and Salamis

By the 430’s BC,_________ the began to feel threatened by the ___________.In 431 BC,  __________moved on to ____________ The bloody and brutal conflict between them, known as the ___________________ continued for 25 years until finally, __________ fell. With the end of the War the time of ______________dominance was over, but great marvels of Greek culture and engineering would live on.

Spartans, Athenians, Sparta, to Athens, Peloponnesian War, Athens, Pericle’’s