hs121 Saint Peters University History Question

Instructions: Please let the following questions guide you as you work through the assigned reading and create your homework response paper. A response paper should consist of at least one double-spaced page, and no more than about three.

1) Sansone writes (on pg. 2) that some historians feel as though written records from an ancient civilization provide “more truthful… evidence of their lives” than material culture or other remains. Do you agree with this idea?

2) Reread Sansone’s discussion of the Cycladic “mother goddesses,” particularly the bit about “works of art” on page 6. Do you think these sculptures were “works of art” for the ancient Cycladic people, or is this a modern idea? What is a work of art?

3) What was the Minoan language, Linear A, most often used for, according to Sansone? What does this say about Minoan civilization? (See pg. 10