Exam revision!

Sources, scholars and essay writing

100

There's not much about Sparta that this man hasn't said

Paul Cartledge

200

This geologist proved that the sealine had receded at Troy over time

Kraft

300

This man has some big theories about the Sea Peoples and the role they played in Bronze Age collapse

Eric Cline

400

This element starts a body paragraph and links to the question (and your thesis)

Topic sentence

500

This man's "Descriptions of Greece", written in the 2nd century CE, are part history, part travelogue.

Pausanias

Spartan social club

100

These people made up the largest population in Sparta

Helots

200

The name for these people comes from the Greek for "lives around"

Perioikoi

300

Spartan boys entered the agoge at this age

Seven

400

This Greek word, meaning "same" or "equal", is another word for Spartan citizens or Spartiates

Homoioi

500

If you couldn't pay your Syssitia, you could lose your citizenship and become this class

Inferiors

What's in a name

100

Troy was known by this name in the Hittite records

Wilusa

200

This man is known as the father of history

Herodotus

300

This secretive group was thought to patrol the hills at night, killing helots

Krypteia

400

This man, the tutor of Alexander the Great, offers seven main criticisms of Spartan society

Aristotle

500

This play by Aristophanes is named after the title heroine, a strong Spartan woman who has a cunning plan to stop the Peloponnesian War.

Lysistrata

Troy conflict

100

These large pots were perfect for storage in case of a siege.

Pithoi

200

Troy was protected by these, which were up to four metres thick in parts.

Walls

300

The mythological Trojan War lasted for this many years.

Ten

400

Blegen uncovered evidence of fire damage, which led him to theorise that this stratum was the "Homeric" Troy

VIIa

500

This author of the History of the Peloponnesian War says that the Greeks would have defeated the Trojans much more quickly, if not for a lack of supplies, forcing them to spread out in search of food.

Thucydides

Archaeological finds

100

This archaeologist found evidence of a lower town

Korfmann

200

Schliemann found this treasure when he dug all the way down to Troy II

Priam's Treasure

300

Modern archaeologists, like Korfmann and Aslan, have been able to use this technology to accurately date pottery finds at the site

Carbon-14 dating

400

Most of the pottery found at Troy VI is from these Greek people

Mycenaeans

500

Blegen discovered unburied bodies near this structure

Pillar House