Greek Geography
Ch.25 Vocabulary
Ch.26 Facts
Ch.26 Vocabulary
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100
This was the long Greek island south of the mainland.
What is Crete?
100
A body of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
This is what ancient Greek cities are called.
What are city-states?
100
A government in which power is held by the people, who exercise power directly or through elected representatives.
What is democracy?
100
This was the ancient Greeks major route of travel.
What is by sea/ship?
200
This is the capital of Greece.
What is Athens?
200
A settlement under the control of a usually distant country.
What is a colony?
200
This early form of government ruled the city-states from about 2000 to 800 B.C.E.
What is a monarchy?
200
A person who has certain rights and duties in a city-state or nation.
What is a citizen?
200
This sea is along the west coast of Greece.
What is the Ionian Sea?
300
This is the highest mountain in Greece.
What is Mt.Olympus?
300
An arm of the Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece.
What is the Aegean Sea?
300
This government was usually made up of a small group of wealthy men.
What is an oligarchy?
300
A group of citizens, in an ancient Greek democracy, with the power to pass laws.
What is an assembly?
300
These two things made farming difficult in Greece.
What is rocky soil, and water was scarce? (limited flat land is acceptable)
400
The name of the peninsula where Sparta is located.
What is the Peloponnesus?
400
Olive oil and pottery were Greece's main ones.
What are exports?
400
This is another name for a dictator, not a lawful king.
What is a tyrant?
400
A member of the most powerful class in ancient Greek history.
What is an aristocrat?
400
The lack of these two things made navigating ships difficult, especially at night.
What is lack of compasses/charts, and no light/lighthouses?
500
The continents where the Greeks set up colonies.
What are Europe, Africa, and Asia?
500
The type of ships built for trading.
What are Merchant Ships?
500
The people of Athens were the first Greeks to develop this form of government, where citizens voted.
What is democracy?
500
A government in which absolute ruling power is held by a person who is not a lawful king.
What is a tyranny?
500
These are the four forms of government that developed in the Greek city-states.
What are monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy?
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