History Ch. 4 terms

5 Written Questions

1. ...
2. lives on cliffs and some call him a bandit-- threw people off cliff and a turtle would kill that person --Killed by Theseus (gives him a taste of his own medicine)
3. a type of extremely fine palace pottery in the minoan culture
4. an azure blue semiprecious stone
5. the fusing of tiny metal balls to a metal surface for decoration

5 Matching Questions

1. terra cotta
2. Lycomedes
3. portico
4. Atlas
5. votive

1. a dedicated in fulfillment of a vow
2. b King of Scyros, murderer of Theseus, harborer of Achilles
3. c a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area
4. d a figure of a man used as a supporting column, (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders
5. e a hard unglazed brownish-red earthenware

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. any receptacle for the burial of human bones
   1. ossuary
   2. ashlar
   3. Thera
   4. stoa
2. ...
   1. portico
   2. Keftiu
   3. stoa
   4. rhyton
3. ...
   1. Sinis
   2. Pasiphae
   3. Poseidon
   4. obsidian
4. according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake
   1. Sinis
   2. Millet
   3. atlantis
   4. Atlas
5. ...
   1. circa
   2. stoa
   3. Phaedra
   4. Thera

5 True/False Questions

1. Poseidon → (Greek mythology) the god of the sea and earthquakes in ancient mythology

   True        False

2. Horns of Consecration → the fusing of tiny metal balls to a metal surface for decoration

   True        False

3. ashlar → a figure of a man used as a supporting column, (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders

   True        False

4. solon → Athenian reformer of the 6th century; established laws that eased the burden of debt on farmers, forbade enslavement for debt

   True        False

5. Pillars of Hercules → the two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar, Bosporus and Dardanelles-"made" by Hercules

   True        False