Ancient Greece Lesson 1 and 2

Greece 1

100

What 2 geographical landforms will you find the most of in Greece?

Mountains and islands

200

What is the largest island in Greece?

Crete

300

The two main peninsulas in Greece are...

Attica and Peloponnesus

400

Which is more fertile: Greece or Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

500

Name all 3 of the 5 bodies of water that touch Greece. +200 if you can name all 5.

Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea

Greece 2

100

This is a booming industry in ancient Greece...

Trading/Shipping

200

One of Greece's major crops and trading pieces, used to make a type of oil which became very popular...

Olives

300

One of Greece's major crops used to make wine...

Grapes

400

In order to harvest the most crops farmers needed to make sure they did this...

prep the fields in fall, before the winter came.

500

Who was Greece's most competitive trading partner?

Phoenicia

Greece 3

100

The main way people got around in ancient Greece...

Boats

200

Greece's most prized export...

olive oil

300

Another name for "city-state"

Polis

400

What did Greek city-states value about their neighboring city-states?

Their similarities and differences

500

A meeting place or marketplace

Agora

Greece 4

100

Girls stayed home to do household chores here.

Athens

200

Girls trained to be strong mothers here.

Sparta

300

Citizens could not be...

Women or Slaves

400

This type of government was first started in Athens.

Democracy

500

The two famous poems written by Homer were...

The Iliad and the Odyssey 

Greece 5

100

Boys learned how to fight like soldiers here.

Sparta

200

Boys spent their time in school or working for their fathers here.

Athens

300

Historians know the most about which two city-states?

Sparta and Athens

400

A few days out of the month were dedicated to...

worshiping a god/goddess

500

This famous competition was invented in Greece

Olympics