6th grade Socal studies ancient Greece studies guide

Greece

100

1. What continent did Ancient Greece develop on?

Europe

200

1. What kind of land (mountains, plains, islands, etc.) makes up most of Greece?

Mountains

300

1. What were two famous Greek city-states?

Athens and Sparta

400

1. Why did the Greeks trade with other people?

Needed resources that they did not have

500

1. Who was the most important god in Greek religion?

Zeus

Athens

100

• Ate fish, vegetables, bread and _____?

cheese

200

1. Who was allowed to vote in Ancient Athens?

Free adult male Citizens

300

• how much of the population were slaves?

33%

400

1. What type of government did Athens have?

Democracy

500

• Slaves worked in hard labor jobs or skilled slaves were used to make money in a what kind of job?

skilled

City-State

100

• Most people lived in the what?

city

200

• City or town that controls surrounding villages and what other kind of land? 

farmland

300

1. What were two famous Greek city-states?

Athens and Sparta

400

1. What is a city-state?

Something that surrounds farm land

500

• There were over how many city-states in ancient Greece?

1,000

Minoans

100

• First civilization to appear on what kind of soil?

European

200

• Around 3000 BC, the Minoan civilization emerged on the island of what?

Crete

300

1. What group took over the Minoans?

The Mycenaeans

400

1. Where did the Minoans live?

Island of Greek

500

• Traded with mainland Greece and ______?

Egypt

Aegean Geography

100

• Greece is a peninsula and group of what land form?

islands

200

• Very mountainous and mostly what kind of land

rocky

300

• Mountains contain marble and limestone used on what?

buildings

400

• how is the climate?

warm and dry

500

• Depended on fish from sea for what?

food