Vocabulary
Greek Geography
Greek Civilization
Greek Trading/CUltures
Greek City-States
100
an area that is surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
100
Lived on rocky, mountainous lands surrounded by water.
What is the mainland of Greece?
100
Their ships carried goods such as wool, olive oil, and pottery,all around the eastern Mediterranean.
What are Minoan ships?
100
The Greeks joined together in small groups for protection and stability. These groups set up independent city-states.
What is known as Greece's classical age?
200
The Greek word for a city state.
What is polis?
200
Travel across the mountains and seas was difficult
What is the isolation of communities from one another?
200
Minoan ships carried goods to trade for these goods
What is copper, gold, silver, and jewels?
200
They were the first people to speak Greek
Who are the Mycenaeans?
200
Life in the city focused on farmers trading crops for goods made from craftsmen.
What is an agora?
300
An age marked by great achievements.
What is classical?
300
The early Greeks turned to the seas
What is inland travel across rugged mountains was very difficult.
300
Historians don't consider Minoans to be Greek.
What is Minoans didn't speak the Greek language?
300
The largest and mot powerful fortress
What is Mycenae?
300
Provided security and identity for its people.
What is a city-state?
400
A high hill
What is an acropolis?
400
The Greeks sailed to Asia Minor, to Egypt, and islands of the Mediterranean and Aegean seas.
What is the Greeks became skilled shipbuilders and sailors?
400
The island lays south of the Aegean in the eastern Mediterranean.
What is Crete?
400
Mycenaean society fell apart when invaders from Europe swept into Greece. Their civilization crumbled and slid into a period of warfare and disorder.
What is the period called the Dark Age?
400
City-states became concerned about the growing population and neighboring lands.
What is the establishment of Greek colonies?
500
These two civilizations influenced the entire Aegean region and helped shape later cultures in Greece.
Who are the Minoans and the Mycenaens?
500
Built an advanced society on the island of Crete.
Who are the Minoans?
500
The Mycenaeans set up colonies here to ship goods to markets around the Mediterranean and Black seas.
What is northern Greece and Italy?
500
A huge volcano erupted north of Crete and buried cities.
What is the end of Minoan civilization?
500
Because of their location, some city-states became trading centers.
What is trade making city-states richer?
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