| A | B |
|---|
| Minoan | Europe's oldest civilization |
| bull leaping | a favored Minoan sport |
| Knossos | One of the Minoan largest cities |
| fresco | water color painting on wet plaster in Knossos |
| Wooden walls | Minoan fleet made the palace centers strong and powerful |
| peaceful, creative, lovers of nature, colorful, elegant | Words that describe Minoan art |
| labyrinth | a maze designed to confine the Minotaur |
| polytheism | Minoan religion many gods |
| Mother Earth goddess | made babies on earth & made plants grow |
| earthquake | Natural disasters that might have caused the downfall of the Minoans |
| overseas trade | source of Minoan wealth |
| wine, olive oil, pottery | Minoan exports |
| farming | how majority of ancient people made a living; basis for all ancient economies |
| Iliad | poem about the Trojan Wars |
| Aegean Sea | where Minoanbody of water that separates Europe from Asia |
| Aegean civilizations | Minoans, Mycenaeans, Trojans |
| Bronze Age of Greece | Mycenean civilization |
| Dorians | during Dark age who took over Myceans |
| Dark Age of Greece | time when nothing was being learned, taught or invented |
| Crete | site of Minoan civiliation, an island mostly forest |
| Homer | author of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| Causes of the Trojan wars | Greek invasion |
| Causes of the Trojan Wars | Commercial rivalry between the Trojans and the Mycenaeans |
| War as the test of manhood | important value of the ancient Greeks |
| Asia Minor | Troy was a major trading city in |
| natural disasters | played a role in the downfall of both the Minoans and the Mycenaeans |
| palace centers | In Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, the hub of political, commercial life, and religious worship |
| civil war | After Trojan War, Mycecean states started fighting each other |
| parchment | over doors & windows, thin, oiled animal skins |
| tenants | enslaved people who worked for others |
| megaron | square room in a palace with a fireplace |
| shrines | families built shrines to become closer to Mother Nature |
| Minitaur | body of a man, head of bull |
| on an island called Crete surrounded by water | Minoan civilization was where? |
| Theseus | Greek prince who killed the Minitaur, ended Minoan culture |
| Minoan cities | no walls, sea for boundary, had a palace |
| Mother Earth & many gods | Minoan gods |
| Seafarers | Minoans who made & used boats |
