Geographical Terms
Places in Greece
Greek Jobs
Athens
Sparta
100
A section of land bordered by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
The Greek word for city-state.
What is a polis?
100
If you were a successful farmer, you probably grew one or both of these two crops.
What are grapes and olives?
100
Athens lies on this peninsula, which shares its name with a notorious prison in New York.
What is Attica?
100
Sparta is on this peninsula, the largest in Greece.
What is Peloponnesus?
200
A protected inlet where ships are kept.
What is a harbor?
200
On the compass, Greece would be this direction from Africa.
What is north?
200
What geographical features made it difficult to raise a surplus of grain?
What are extreme weather (hot, dry summers/cold, wet winters) and/or steep, rocky terrain. (Must answer at least one of these!)
200
This was all the education girls received in Athens.
What is learning to do household chores?
200
Spartan life revolved around having a strong one of these.
What is a military?
300
Ancient Greece was unlike the other four ancient civilizations we have studied because the agriculture did NOT revolve around one of these.
What is a long river?
300
The largest island in Greece.
What is Crete?
300
We do it for fun on Lake Travis, but to the Greeks, it was a way of life.
What is sailing?
300
This original form of government in Athens means "rule by one."
What is monarchy?
300
Sparta was this many miles north of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is 30?
400
The name of the sea that separates Greece and Troy.
What is the Aegean Sea?
400
This high point in Greece was thought to be the home of the gods.
What is Mt. Olympus?
400
Greek sailors and merchants were often in competition with this civilization, which is the modern country of Lebanon.
What is Phoenicia?
400
Before democracy developed in Athens, the city-state was run by this group of powerful, wealthy citizens.
What is an oligarchy?
400
Girls trained in running, throwing javelins, and playing ball games in order to become this.
What are strong mothers of strong children?
500
Odysseus came from this island off the western coast of Greece.
What is Ithaca?
500
This small island is close to the modern day country of Turkey.
What is Rhodes?
500
A provider of after dinner entertainment.
What is a bard/storyteller?
500
The patron goddess of Athens was Athena, the goddess of this, which tells us something about the values of Athens.
What is wisdom?
500
In 600 BC, this event caused Sparta to rethink its priorities as a city-state.
What is a slave revolt (which led to Sparta's intense focus on the military)?
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