Vocabulary
True or False
Geography
Miscallaneous
Government
100
A long poem that tells a story. (2)
What is an epic?
100
Minoans and Myceneans were both highly developed societies
True
100
the continent Greece is located on (packet page 1)
What is Europe?
100
The main Greek God
Who was Zeus?
100
A form of government in which citizens govern themselves. (7)
What is a democracy?
200
has its own traditions, government, and laws and is a separate and independent state. (4)
What is a city-state?
200
An acropolis is a high rocky hill where early people built cities.
True
200
The profession of many Greeks due to the geography
What are traders and sailors?
200
The Greek God of the Sea
Who was Posiedon?
200
how a a person becomes a citizen of Athens
What is both parents being born in Athens?
300
an area of land nearly surrounded by water (1)
What is a peninsula?
300
Pythagorus was a Greek philosopher. (packet page Ancient Greece)
False. Pythagorus was a Greek mathematician.
300
The name of the highest mountain in Greece
What is Mount Olympus?
300
two kinds of government that first developed in the Greek city-states after the Greek Dark Ages (11a)
What are city-states and tyranny?
300
the wise Athenian leader who won the right to to reform the economy and the government in 594 B.C. (p. 175)
Who was Solon?
400
A ruler who takes power with the support of the middle and working class.
What is tyrant?
400
Greeks created democracy, written history and modern literature. (packet Ancient Greece)
True.
400
The geographic setting of Greece is a. mountains surrounded by water b. forests surrounded by fields c. farmland surrounded by villages d. city-states surrounded by plains (9a)
What is mountains surrounded by water.
400
name of the two epics written about the Trojan War (page 171)
What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
400
most city-states were ruled by these people (page 174)
What are aristocrats?
500
The name of two of the Greek philosophers (packet page 5)
What Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle.
500
Greek contributed to Western culture in mathematics and philosophy but did not contribute to Western culture in medicine and science. (packet Ancient Greece)
False. Greeks contributed to Western culture in mathematics, philosophy, medicine and science.
500
the reason people built cities on high hills (page 172)
What is for protection?
500
During the Dark Ages of Greece (1100s B.C.- 750 B.C.) people kept their traditions and history alive through (p. 172)
What is word of mouth?
500
the first laws of Solon
What was cancelling all debts freeing citizens enslaved because of debts?
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