Vocabulary
A body of land with water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
This main land form of Greece made roads on the main land nearly impossible.
What are mountains?
The name of the main sea that the ancient Greeks traded throughout the coastline.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The main import of Greece
What is grain?
Farmers raised sheep for its _____.
What is wool?
New territory that has close ties to its homeland
What are colonies?
One of the highest mountains in the world
What is Mount Olympus?
Which city-state is located on the Peloponnesus peninsula? Corinth, Crete, Thebes
What is Corinth?
The two main exports of Greece
What are olive oil and wine?
Greece climate was consider a ________climate because it was warm and dry in the summer, and cool in the winter.
What is moderate climate?
An independent country with its own government and political leaders
What is polis?
This main land form of Greece is an area of land that is ALMOST entirely surrounded by water.
What is a penninsula?
The direction from the Greek peninsula to Asia Minor?
What is east?
Greek inland communities were separated by
Rugged mountains?
The city-state that is west of Greece.
What is Italy?
A marketplace.
What is an agora?
What is the name of the large western peninsula of ancient Greece?
What is Peloponnesus?
The name of the large Greek island where the city state of Knossos was found?
What is Crete?
Trade expanded merchants traded _____ for goods.
Money?
For 300 hundred years the Greeks went through a difficult time called ________.
What are the Dark Ages?
Unified formation of soliders
What is a phalanx?
The land form that is located eastern side of the peninsula?
What is the Aegean Sea?
The sea between the Greek peninsula and Asia Minor?
What is the Aegean Sea?
Trade and ______helped Greek culture and ideas spread throughout the Mediterranean area
What is colonies?
There are hundreds of _______ in the Aegean Sea that look like stepping stones.
What are islands?