Ancient Geography Midterm

I. Short Identifications  10 total Short ID’s    =   50%

* I will put 15 of these on the exam: you must answer 10, but at least 2 from each column.

 

People

Places

Things & Concepts

Alexander
Anaximander

Aristeas
Aristotle

Ctesias of Cnidos
Eratosthenes

Ephoros of Cyme
Eudoxus (Aristotle's pupil)
Hanno

Hecataeus of Miletus

Herodotus

Homer

Hyperboreans
Odysseus
Ortelius
Pausanias

Pericles
Pliny

PseudoSkylax
Ptolemy the geographer

Pytheas

Skylax of Karyanda
Strabo
Xerxes

 

 

 

 

 SOME of the Map places could occur here: a place like Delphi, for instance, might appear here. But a city like Corinth would not, because we have not read much about it or talked much about it. So if we talked about it or it figured largely in our readings, a Map item might occur here.

In addition:
Atlantis (not mappable)
Hyperborea (we just don't know where it was, aside from beyond the North wind)
Thule (again, where was it? can't be put on a map, really)



 

 

 

Alexander Romance and geography
Antipodeans/Antichthones
Earth, shape of, in ancient Greek thought
Ethnocentrism: Positive v. negative versions in Greek thought
Homeric geography (particularly things like the Lotus-Eaters, Cyclops, Sckylla and Charybdis: Odysseus' travels and their relation to geographies real and imagined)
Hyperboreans

Latitude and Longitude in Greek theoretical thought
"Map" in Greek times
Ocean as a concept in ancient geography

Oikoumene
Oracle

The Ortelius Atlas and its historical maps
Periplus/Periploi

Persian War
"Primary Sources" for the items on this exam

Thule
Trade: iron, copper, tin, amber, spice, etc.

Trojan War



Built things as recordings of memory (Acropolis article)
Geography as a thing written on the body (Pindar article)


 

 

II. Map:  25%: 20 total items

·       I will put 30 of these on the exam: you must place 20, but at least 3 from each column.

Water & River

Cities

Regions

Places

Expeditions

Adriatic
Aegean
Black Sea
Caspian Sea

Danube
Euphrates

Indus
Mediterranean
Mesopotamia

Nile
Persian Gulf

Red Sea
Rhone River
Tigris

 

 

Alexandria

Anatolia

Argos
Athens

Babylon
Carthage/Karthago
Corinth
Massalia/Massilia
Miletus
Mycenae

Olympia
Pergamon

Persepolis
Rome
Sparta

“Troy”


 

Asia Minor
Attica

Bactria

Boeotia
Brittania/Pretanike
Crete

Cyprus
Egypt/Aegypt
Ethiopia (according to ancients: perhaps more a concept)
Hindu Kush
Hibernia/Hybernia

Ionia

Libya

Magna Graecia
Peloponnese

Persia

Scythia/Skythia
Sicily

Thrace

Chariot of the Gods (mt. Cameroun)
Crete
Delphi
Lake Maeotis

Macedonia Mycenae

Mt. Olympus
Thule
"zones" of the earth

 Hanno
Himilco
Jason and the argonauts
Nearchus
Necho (sometimes 'Necho II)
Pytheas
Skylax

 

III. Timeline: 25%: 16 total items

·       I will put 24 of these on the exam: you must place 16, but at least 3 from each column.
Please Construct your own timeline.

Person

Era

Event
All people in "Short Identifications" above could be here as well.

 

Archaic

Bronze Age (Greek)

Classical Greece
Dark Ages (Greek)

Hellenistic

Minoan
Mycenaean

Death of Alexander the great
Construction of Alexandria in Egypt
Bronze age collapse (end of the palace cultures)
Cambyses conquers Egypt

Battle of Marathon
Pericles' building program in Athens
Rome "frees" Greece (i.e. when the Romans gained control of Greece)

Battle of Salamis

Battle of Thermopylae