Greece is surrounded by water on three sides. What type of land is this called?
What is a peninsula.
100
Where do the people of Greece live since its mountains are rocky and rugged?
What is flat areas along the coastal and river valleys.
100
The Minoans lived on what island?
What is the island of Crete.
100
Why were the Mycenaeans considered the first Greeks?
What is is the Minoans did not speak Greek, but the Mycenaeans did.
100
What is the Greek word for city-states?
What is polis.
200
The mainland of Greece is made up of one big irregular peninsula made up of a series of?
What is a small peninsulas and islands.
200
The people of who lived in Greece were separated by?
What is mountains and seas.
200
The Minoans lived on an island of Crete, thererfore, they spent much of their time where?
What is at sea?
200
What were the Mycenaeans building when the Minoans were sailing the Mediterranean?
What is the Mycenaeans were building fortresses all over the Greek mainland.
200
Why did the Greeks start to join together in small groups after the crumbling of the Mycenaeans civilization?
What is for protection and stability.
300
The land and sea of Greece ____________ .
What is intertwines.
300
Communities were isolated from one another due to?
What is the difficulty of traveling across the mountains and seas.
300
The Minoans were known for what?
What is being the best shipbuilders of their time.
300
How did the Mycenaeans get their name?
What is they were named after the largest and most powerful fortress known as the Mycenaeans.
300
The Greeks started to join together in small groups for protection and stability. These groups set up?
What is independent city-states.
400
What are the three seas that surround Greece?
What is a Ionian, Mediterranean, and Aegean Sea.
400
Due to the isolation of the communities what did the people do?
What is create their own government and way of life.
400
Minoans ships carried wood, olive oil, and pottery all around the eastern Mediterranean. They traded these goods for?
What is copper, gold, silver, and jewels.
400
Mycenaeans became the major traders in the eastern Mediterranean after the the decline of the Minoans in the mid 1400s. Where did they set up their colonies and ship their goods?
What is northern Greece and Italy from which they shipped goods to markets around the Mediterrenaean and Black seas.
400
Greek cities were usually built around a strong fortress. This fortress often stood on top of a high hill called the?
What is acropolis?
500
Just a few small valleys and plains provide?
What is flat land for farming and villages.
500
Even though they spoke the same language what did the Greek communities believe?
What is the Greek communities saw themselves as separate countries.
500
What may have led to the end of the Minoan civilization?
What is a giant wave that flooded much of Crete due to the volcano eruption left of Crete in the 1600's BC.
500
How did the Mycenaeans feel about trade?
What is Mycenaeans did not think trade had to be conducted peacefully.
500
Why did Greeks become rich and the greatest traders in the whole Aegean region in 550 BC?
What is because of their location and ships sailing to Egypt and cities around the Black Sea.