Geography
How much of Greece's land, on the continent of Europe, is rocky and mountainous?
What is 80% of the land like in Greece?
What is a story that includes the Greek gods and teaches a lesson?
What is a myth?
How successful was a democracy government in Greece?
How did democracy become the longest lasting type of government in ancient Greece?
Why were so many ancient Greek men sailors?
How does living on a peninsula - surrounded on three sides by water - explain why so many Greek men were sailors?
How many social classes were there in ancient Greece?
How did four social classes divide the people in ancient Greece?
What three crops could grow well in the rocky and mountainous land of Greece?
How well did grapes, olives, and wheat grown in ancient Greece?
Where was it believed that the 12 mightiest Greek Gods lived?
Who lived on Mount Olympus?
What type of government offered the poor of Greece a chance to find a military leader who could overthrow the Oligarchs?
What is tyranny?
What made farming in ancient Greece successful even though there was not much fertile soil or farmland?
How were grapes, olives, and wheat good crops to grow in Greece's poor farming conditions?
Men of Athens and Sparta had different expectations and requirements.
How were the men expected to help the government in Athens and the Spartan men expected to participate in the military?
What type of land feature is surrounded on three sides by water (as Greece does)?
What is a peninsula?
What was the main purpose of the ancient Olympic festival?
How important was honoring Zeus at tine Olympics?
What did the Oligarchs do that angered the poor of Greece?
How did going to entertainment events, partying, and raising taxes of the give the Oligarchs a bad reputation?
What activity on the Mediterranean Sea helped the Greeks to grow their economy and get their needs and wants met?
What is trading?
How was the training of seven year old boys in Sparta and Athens different?
How was going to school different in Athens than the military training of boys in Sparta?
What made Greece's land hard to travel on, hard to communicate with other parts of the country, and hard to unify?
How did mountains and rocky land make life hard for the Greeks?
Why did the ancient Greeks do animal sacrifice?
How was animal sacrifice believed to please the Greek gods?
Why was it hard for ancient Greece to have one central government?
How did mountainous land and thousands of islands make communication hard and keep Greece divided?
How did Greek women work to help the economy?
How did women help by making flour and farming in ancient Greece?
What were the names of the four social classes in Athens and their order of rank?
What were Athenian nobles, Metics, Freedmen, and slaves in ancient Athens?
What solution did the ancient Greeks come up with that solved the difficulty of land travel?
How did traveling by boat make travel easier and quicker?
What are examples of human traits that the ancient Greek gods were believed to possess?
What are jealousy, love, laughter, anger, revenge, and competing for power?
What are the four types of government practiced in ancient Greece over several hundred years?
What were monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy?
Identify several ways that Greek sailors used the seas in order to find work.
How did the ancient Greek sailors find work by trading, fishing, pearl diving, fighting in wars as mercenaries, and pirating/raiding?
How did an ancient Athenian woman spend most of her time?
How did caring for the children and the family keep most Athenian women at home?