Isolated Communities and the Difficulties of Travel
Farming in Ancient Greece
Starting Colonies
Trading for Needed Goods
100
This is the landform that Greece is situated on.
What is a peninsula?
100
This is a small community or village.
What is a settlement?
100
Many people in ancient Greece survived by this.
What is farming?
100
A person who lives in a colony.
What is a colonist?
100
A person who makes money by selling goods.
What is a merchant?
200
List two of Greece's geographical features.
What are mountains, nearly surrounded by water, and many islands?
200
List one effect Greece's geography had on travel.
What are mountains made travel difficult and surrounded by water made sea travel possible?
200
List one effect Greece's geography had on the food ancient Greeks ate.
What are sometimes led to trade, sometimes to war, and raising crops and animals that did not require much land?
200
These was the first two steps for starting a colony.
What are consult an oracle and gather food and supplies?
200
List one effect Greece's geography had on relations with others.
What are mountains left Greek communities isolated from one another, small amount of land led to wars, and Greeks traded with other peoples because of lack of land?
300
List one reason and one difficulty for Greeks to travel by land.
What are no fears of being caught in a storm and steep mountains were hard to cross.?
300
The ancient Greeks did not like to travel on land because of this.
What is they found traveling through the mountains difficult?
300
This is one result of ancient Greeks not having enough farmland to feed themselves.
What is they traded to get what they needed?
300
These are the last two steps for starting a colony.
What are travel by sea and choose a good location for the colony?
300
Ancient Greeks relied on this when did not have enough for their needs.
What is trade?
400
List one reason and one difficulty for traveling by sea.
What are made it possible to trade with others and rocky shorelines?
400
The Greeks worshipped the sea god Poseidon. This tells us what about the Greek civilization.
What is the Greeks relied on the sea for travel and trade?
400
List the three products created from olive oil.
What are used for cooking, soap, and fuel for lamps?
400
The first group of settlers created a colony called this.
What is Ionia in Asia Minor?
400
Greeks did not have these when navigating their ships.
What are compasses and charts?
500
Ancient greeks raised sheep, grew olive trees, and lived in isolated communities. They did this for this reason.
What is Greece is mostly mountainous?
500
Geographic factors shaped the ancient Greeks this way.
What is they lived in isolated villages?
500
Shortage of land led to this.
What is led to wars between settlement, with each one claiming land for itself?
500
Colonists continued to enjoyed this, like any citizen back home.
What are Greek athletic games?
500
The stars could tell sailors where they were but could not do these two things.
What are hazards that lay nearby and dangerous coastlines?