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Test your knowledge on various cultural terms and traditions from around the world
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Modern day Turkey
Agia Triada
Ayia Photia
Delphi
Anatolia
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Term for various types of non-violent bullfighting - an acrobat leaping over the back of a charging bull.
Anatolia
Bull leaping
Griffin
Bellows
3
Period of time before civilisation and writing
Xerxes
Linear B
neolithic
pre-history
4
A pottery ring or stone tray on which several small vessels are attached for holding offerings.
Kemare ware
Hypostyle
Labrys
Kernoi
5
Ancient and versatile cutting tool similar to an axe.
artisan
seal
pithoi
adze
6
A nation having control over large expanses of the seas - a maritime empire.
semetic
mediterranean
thalassocracy
shipwright
7
A sunken room accessed by a short flight of steps - possibly for ritual use.
cuneiform
cistern
lustral basin
pillar crypt
8
Small intricately carved stone used to indicate ownership or for adornment.
flagstones
labrys
sickle
seal
9
Mythical creature with body of a man and head of bull.
Minotaur
Kraken
Griffin
Minos
10
Relating to the New Stone Age, which began about 10,000 years ago.
Neolithic
Mesolithic
Bronze Age
Paleolithic
11
Resembling a palace in being spacious and splendid.
oligarchs
palace
storey
palatial
12
Device with an air bag that emits a stream of air, blowing onto the fire.
Weasels
Smelting
Bellows
Alloys
13
Family-based chambers - not individual plots.
Kernoi
Inhumation
Larnax
Communal burial
14
Mythical creature with head and wings of eagle and body of a lion.
Minotaur
Griffin
Deity
Tawaret
15
A stone coffin adorned with sculpture or inscription.
smelting
sacrophagus
pillar crypt
rhyton
16
Inhabitant of ancient Troy.
Persian
Trojan
Spartan
Phoenicians
17
Storage area for agricultural produce and other products.
magazine
merchant
mason
lustral basin
18
A workshop or factory for casting metal.
Foundry
Smelting
Ashlar masonry
Mason
19
Woman authorised to perform sacred rites an duties within a religious organisation.
deity
Snake goddess
priestess
priest
20
A large, wide-mouthed earthenware pot is used for storing grain, liquids, and occasionally for the burial of the dead.
larnax
pithoi
sarcophagus
pillar crypt
21
Paintings on wet or dry plaster on walls or ceilings.
cistern
foundry
flagstones
fresco
22
A type of stone construction - stones are dressed or cut to a uniform shape, size, and surface appearance.
Ashlar Masonry
Pillar Crypt
Ayia Photia
Kemare Ware
23
An object made by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical significance.
artefact
colonnade
fresco
kiln
24
The mythical abode of the dead, imagined as being under the earth.
Ashlar masonry
tholos tomb
underworld
Anatolia
25
Largest capital of Greece.
Athens
Sparta
Dorians
Anatolia
26
A primary script used in palace and religious writings - undeciphered.
Hieroglyph
Linear B
Cuneiform
Linear A
27
Study of human history through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Genealogy
Archaeology
Anthropology
Sociology
28
Tawaret was a goddess associated with childbirth and fertility.
False
True
29
Human settlement in Crete.
Sparta
Athens
Ayia Photia
Troy
30
Disc of fired clay from the island of Crete. Text unknown.
sickle
phoenicians
minotaur
phiastos disc
31
A complicated, irregular network of passages or paths.
larnax
labrys
kernoi
labyrinth
32
Writing used by the Mycenaeans to write an early form of Greek.
Cuneiform
Linear B
Linear A
Hellenistic
