Linguistics
What are language families?
Groups of languages which descend from a common ancestor.
What German archaeologist discovered (and destroyed) Troy?
Heinrich Schliemann
How many times do Greeks believe they die?
Three!
What city is the capital of the Hittite Empire?
Hattusa
What groups of peoples invaded the Bronze Age Trade Empires from by boat?
Sea Peoples
Where were the speakers of Proto-Indo-European originally from?
The Eurasian Steppe/Modern-day Ukraine.
What English archaeologist discovered the palace of Knossos and the Minoan civilization?
Sir Arthur Evans
What Greek value means excellence or awesomness, and often lead to unhealthy levels of competition? Answer in Greek.
Arete
What resources powered the Bronze Age trade empires' economies?
Tin and copper
What group of people invaded Greece from the North?
Dorians
How did the Indo-European languages spread so far?
Because of the Indo-European nomadic herding lifestyle, being that they were likely the first people to domesticate horses and build chariots.
What two British code breakers decyphered linear B?
Michael Ventris and Alice Kobar
What Greek value did Paris violate when he stole Helen from Meneleus, king of Sparta? Answer in Greek.
Xenia
What is a small world network?
A network with very short distances between each point, like the interconnected trade network of the Late Bronze Age
Which empires "survived" the Bronze Age collapse?
Assyria and Egypt
Name three Indo-European languages
Hittite, Greek, English, German, Russian, Latin, Spanish, French, Irish, Sanskrit.... etc, etc
What Czech linguist discovered that Hittite is an Indo-European language?
Bedrich Hrozny
What Greek value means "honor" or "prizes"? Answer in Greek.
Time
What technology did the Hittites have access to before the rest of the world?
Iron
Besides invasion, name two other causes for the Bronze Age Collapse!
Famine, natural disaster, internal revolt, plague, etc.
What Englishman is known as the "father of modern linguistics" for discovering the existence of language families?
William Jones
What German archaeologist discovered Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire?
Hugo Winckler
What word did later Greeks used to describe Mycenaean architecture?
Cyclopean
What civilization did the Hittites destroy in 1600 BC? Afterward they packed up and went home.
Babylon
What civilization lost writing after the Bronze Age Collapse?
Mycenaean Greece