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Priam's Treasure
Archaeology
Schliemann
Troy
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It is located on Museum island close to Alexanderplatz in Berlin.
Where is the Pergamon Museum located in the present-day?
100
Troy
Where was Priam's treasure originally located?
100
Oil
German archaeological expeditions in Turkey have been called a front for a scramble for what resource?
100
Dynamite excavation.
What was one of Schliemann's unethical excavation methods which destroyed many undiscovered artifacts?
100
Modern-day Northwest Turkey.
Where is Troy located?
200
Colonialism is the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition, and expansion of one territory by a political power from another territory.
What is colonialism?
200
Sophia Schliemann
Who famously wore the fabled jewels of Helen after being discovered in Troy?
200
That the Germans had settled in most of eastern Europe before the Slavic Expansion.
What did the Germans want to prove through Archeology in the 1940s?
200
They wanted to find the primary influences on their own period of enlightenment, and links to other ancient civilizations. "conquerors found in their way were increasingly used to understand the remotest European past" - Colonialism and European Archeology (39).
What is the relationship and motive for Schliemann and other european archelogists for excavating these ancient sites?
200
Heinrich Schliemann excavated Hisarlik in 1870, which contained the various levels of Troy.
When was Troy discovered?
300
It was the steepest amphitheater in the world.
What is so notable about the the Hellenistic theatre at Pergamon, aside from its capacity of 10,000?
300
Turkey, Germany, Russia
Which countries claim they have a stake in Priam's Treasure?
300
The British accused the Germans of using archaeological expeditions as covers for espionage (most specifically espionage in the Ottoman Empire.)
What did the British accuse the German government was doing during their archaeological expeditions?
300
The ability to teach himself many languages.
What skill did Schliemann acquire while living in Holland after being shipwrecked?
300
Helen of Troy
Who is the fabled woman so beautiful known to cause the Trojan war?
400
To establish diplomatic relations in Turkey, and dismember the Ottoman Empire.
What is the relationship between Archaeology and European Colonialism?
400
At the end of World War II with the invasion of the Red Army in Berlin, the treasure was taken from an underground bunker.
At what point was the treasure moved from Berlin to Russia, and under what circumstances?
400
They wanted to show their ability to understand and create ancient art/architecture. "a principle reason for the german enthusiasm for the Pergamon Altar was a desire to overcome the established stigma of the germans as "artistic Barbarians" - Illich
What differentiated larger archeaological excavations such as the excavation at Olympus from those of ‘archaeologists’ like Schliemann?
400
He smuggled it past the turkish officials to ship it to Athens and later brought it to Germany.
What was Schliemann's role in the smuggling of Priam's Treasure?
400
Schliemann had an unhealthy obsession with finding the cities and artifacts mentioned in the Homeric texts, whether they really existed or not.
What is the significance of the excerpt from the poem "There is no Homeric echo here Myths come knocking on our door when we need them" Extract from: A State of Siege (Ramallah, 2002) about?
500
The Iliad and the Odyssey.
Which Homeric texts led Schliemann's archaeological expedition of Troy?
500
Reparations from World War II, after the Germans looted Russian Museums.
What is Russia's reasoning for holding onto part of Priam's Treasure?
500
"The Germans constructed the entire present form of the Pergamon Alter to fit their Nineteenth-Century imperial ambitions, desires, perceptions, and goals. The ‘reconstruction’ of the ‘altar’ in the most grandiose manner (both in its principal structure and the central depiction of gods like Zeus and Athena) was done to emphasize the magnificence of this monument and, thus, the German accomplishment in recovering it." (Illich)
Why were the German's so fixated on the Pergamon Altar?
500
It represents the post colonial sentiment still present in Berlin.
What is the significance of Schliemannstraße in Berlin?
500
The lowest level.
What layer of Hislarik did Schliemann believe to be Troy?