Greek Geography
Ancient Greece was located in southeastern Europe along this major body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The Minoans lived on this island in the Aegean Sea.
What is Crete?
The Mycenaeans lived here (not on an island like the Minoans).
What is mainland Greece?
The most common job for Greek men was this.
What is farming?
Greek society was not equal; daily life depended on your job, class, and whether you were free, a woman, a foreigner, or this.
What is enslaved (an enslaved person)?
Much of Greece is covered by these, which made land travel slow and difficult.
What are mountains (mountain ranges)?
Being surrounded by water helped the Minoans become skilled at this.
What is sailing (sea travel/shipbuilding)?
Mycenaean cities were often built in this location for defense.
What are hilltops?
Greeks commonly grew these crops (name one) on hillsides.
What are olives? (or What are grapes? / What are grains?)
Women’s daily lives were usually centered around this place.
What is the home (household)?
Because communities were separated by mountains, Greece developed into many independent communities called these.
What are city-states?
Instead of building huge defensive walls, Minoan cities focused on these large centers.
What are palaces?
Mycenaean cities were surrounded by these, showing the society valued defense and warfare.
What are thick stone walls (fortifications)?
In coastal areas, many Greeks worked as craftsmen or as these people who traveled by ship exchanging goods.
What are traders (merchants)?
In most city-states, women had few political rights and did not participate in this.
What is government (politics)?
Name two seas that touched parts of Greece and made sea travel easier than land travel.
What are the Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea? (Mediterranean also acceptable as one of the seas)
This Minoan city is famous for its palace and is mentioned in the reading.
What is Knossos?
Name one Mycenaean city mentioned in the reading.
What is Mycenae? (or What is Tiryns?)
Traders often exchanged Greek goods like olive oil and pottery for this food Greece could not produce enough of.
What is grain?
This person was typically the head of the household and made important decisions.
Who is the father?
Because farmland was limited and soil was rocky, Greeks relied on this to get grain and raw materials.
What is trade?
Minoan artwork often showed ocean life, nature scenes, and this famous activity involving bulls.
What is bull-leaping?
The Mycenaeans are connected to later Greek legends, including this famous war described in Homer’s epics.
What is the Trojan War?
Trade didn’t just move goods—Greeks also spread these three things through trade (name two).
What are ideas, language, and culture?
Enslaved people had no freedom or rights, but their labor supported the economy and allowed some citizens more of this.
What is leisure time?