Geography and Physical Characteristics
Greece is located on this continent.
What is Europe?
These architectural pillars contributed to ancient Greece society and the modern world.
What are columns?
Men over the age of 18 who owned land and were from the same city state as their parents are known as these.
The first Olympics took place in this rural city-state.
What is Olympia?
Greece is surrounded by this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
These are the three types of resources.
What are natural, human and capital resources?
Name three types of columns.
What are doric, ionic and corinthian columns?
Ancient Greece was the birthplace of this.
What is democracy?
Olympics started as a religious event to honor this god.
Who is Zeus?
Greece is a ___________ because it is surrounded on water by 3 sides or more.
What is a peninsula?
Name 5 human resources of ancient Greece.
What are ship builders and captains, farmers, architects, artists and pottery makers, citizens, traders, fishermen and slaves?
This temple is located on the acropolis in Athens and honors the goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
Who are women, children and slaves?
Winners of the Olympics were adorned with a wreath made from this natural resource?
What are olive branches and leaves?
Greece is known to have these types of physical characteristics and geographical features, which made farming difficult and communication difficult.
What are mountains, hills and islands?
Because of the limited fertile soil, these natural resources and crops were easy to grow in ancient Greece.
What are olive trees, grapes, wheat and barley?
Ancient Greek artists were known to create mosaics, paintings, and this third type of artwork.
What is pottery?
This is a form of government in which people vote to make their own rules and laws.
What is direct democracy?
These are the five colors of the modern Olympic rings.
What are black, red, blue, green and yellow?
Because of the mountains, hills and islands made communication and travel difficult, the people of ancient Greece created small independent communities call this.
What is a city-state?
What are fishing and trading?
These are modern examples of Greek architecture.
What are White House, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial and Governor's Mansion in Richmond, VA?
What is the Pnyx?
What are foot races, long jump, javelin, discus and wrestling/boxing?