Week 4 september 27

Reading for Wednesday:Chapter 5 through page 110

**Quiz on Wednesday covering Minoans, Olmecs, early Greece and readings

**Gold star on last quiz: Carol! 11 points!**Silver stars: Megan and Tyia

1250 bc – Exodus – Moses and Israelites leave Egypt

1400 bc – Minoan culture comes to an end

1150 bc – Phoenicians and Assyrians rise to power

900 bc – Geometric Style begins in Greece

C 800 bc – Homer writes down the Iliad and the Odyssey

776 bc first known Olympics

753 bc Foundation of Rome?

609 bc Assyrians fall from power

563 bc Prince Siddhartha Gautama born

551 bc Confucius born

c. 1475 bc - Hatshepsut rules Egypt

Pyramids at Giza already 1300 years old!

Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Tutankhamun were part of history by the time that the Olmecs came into being

By the time the Olmec culture starts, Stonehenge is complete and probably already a mystery

Minoan culture has been gone for over 100 years

Greek culture is contemporary to Olmec culture – Greece has risen and fallen at about the same time the Olmecs disappear

Greece – 900 to 300 bc Olmecs – 1200 to 300 bc

When Olmec culture is disappearing, the Roman Empire is rising

Quetzalcoatl

Between 5 and 11 feet tall

La Venta Head – 6 feet tall and 5 feet across – stone was moved 50 miles to get it to this spot

Shamanism and shape shifting

Cranial deformation

The low relief on this stone shows the detail from a four-digit numerical recording, read as 15.6.16.18. The vigesimal (or base-20) counting system has been used across Mesoamerica. A value of 5 is represented by a bar, and a value of 1 is represented by a dot, such that the three bars and single dot here stands for 16. The Maya would later adopt this counting system for their Long Count calendar. The date in this relief is the oldest recorded date in Mesoamerica, corresponding to a day in the year 31 B.C.

Mystic figure descending from heaven with rope

Geometric 900 – 700 bce

Archaic 600 - 480 bce

Classical 480 – 350 bce

Hellenistic 350 to 1st century ce

Vases

Amphora – storage/carrying things

Kylix – drinking vessel

Hydria – water, ballot box, ashes of the dead

Krater – mixing wine and water

Black figure Red figure

Life in Ancient Greece

How Women were Perceived

Panathenaic Procession

Spartan girl running

Hetairai (Hetaerae )