Wathena temple Holly Stevens 1303.003

2. 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

3. 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

4. Pyramids at Giza already 1300 years old!

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

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

7. Minoan culture has been gone for over 100 years

8. 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

9. When Olmec culture is disappearing, the Roman Empire is rising

12. Quetzalcoatl

13. Between 5 and 11 feet tall

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

24. Shamanism and shape shifting

28. Cranial deformation

31. 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 .

32. Mystic figure descending from heaven with rope

34. Geometric 900 – 700 bce Archaic 600 - 480 bce Classical 480 – 350 bce Hellenistic 350 to 1 st century ce

35. Vases

36. Amphora – storage/ carrying things Kylix – drinking vessel Hydria – water, ballot box, ashes of the dead Krater – mixing wine and water

37. Black figure Red figure

38. Life in Ancient Greece How Women were Perceived

48. Panathenaic Procession

49. Spartan girl running

50. Hetairai (Hetaerae )