Farming
Name 2 crops ancient Greek farmers often grew.
They often grew olives and grapes.
What is the landscape like?
It has lots of hills and it is rocky.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A large, almost land locked arm of the Atlantic Ocean touching Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Why did people in ancient Greece travel?
To be able to trade and go places
Each ______ had a different government.
Each state had a different government.
Shrubs provided food for what animals (name 3)?
Shrubs provided food for sheep, goats, and cattle.
Traveling by land in Western Greece is very ______ because of mountains and hills.
It is very difficult.
What is Rhodes?
A Greek island, lying east of Crete in the Aegean Sea.
What did they use to travel?
They used boats.
Who were the only ones who could be citizens?
Only men could be citizens.
What were the fields like in summer and winter?
Summers were dry and winters were wet and cold.
Suitable farmland exists in ______ Greece. (hint: northern, southern, eastern, or western)
It exists is eastern Greece.
What is harbor?
A sheltered place along the coast.
Sailors traveled where to trade?
They traveled to ancient Egypt.
_____ and _____ weren't citizens.
Women and slaves weren't citizens.
What did farmers grow for bread?
They grew wheat and barley.
What is the biggest island in Greece?
The biggest island is Crete.
What is Attica?
A peninsula in east central Greece on the Aegean Sea on which Athens was built.
What was one of the most important Greek exports?
The one important Greek export is olive oil.
Slaves were known as ______.
Slaves were known as helots.
Greece has a climate that presents _______ for farmers.
Greece's climate provides challenges for farmers.
The ________ contains several rivers.
The Peloponnesus contains several rivers.
What is Peloponnesus (pel-uh-puh-nee-sus)?
a peninsula with a lot of mountains in southern Greece, between the Ionian and Aegean Sea.
Selling olive oil allowed them to buy _______.
It allowed them to buy grain.
Usually a small group of _____ and _____ citizens made all the decisions.
The rich and powerful made the decisions.