Geographical
What are the geographical characteristics/features of Greece? (2)
The geographical characteristics/features of Greece are mountains and seas.
What happened during the Dark Age?
(5)
During the Dark Age trade slowed down, people made fewer things to sell, and most were very poor. Farmers only grew enough food to feed their families. Most people also stopped writing and keeping records.
What did the people of Greece have to do when the population increased and why?
They had to send people to the Aegean island because they didn't have enough food to feed everyone.
What seperated Greek communities?
Mountains and seas.
Who were the only people considered citizens?
Only men were considered citizens.
What type of landform is the country of Greece?
Peninsula
What were the positive developments that happened in the Dark Age?
Dorian warriors introduced iron weapons and the skill of iron making.
What did the Greeks from the mainland send to the new colonies? (3)
They sent wine, oilve oil, and pottery.
What happened to the communities?
They became feircely independent.
What did male citizens have the right to do? (4)
They had the right to vote, hold public office, own property, and defend themselves in court.
What makes Greece different from other earlier civilizations?
In other early civilizations, people first settled in river valleys that had rich soil. Greek civilization began in an area dominated by mountains and seas.
What did the Dorians do to the Greeks?
The Dorians pushed the Greeks out of the mainland. The Greeks spread to the Aegean islands and the western shore of Anatolia.
Why did the Greeks start making coins and what did it affect?
They started making coins because it was more effective then trading/bartering. It affected trading because the coins were more useful.
What happened to the kings?
Nobles who owned large estates had overthrown Greek kings. Across Greece nobles ruled numerous city-states.
What were the male citizens responsibilities? (2)
Their responsibilities were to serve in government and to fight for their polis as citizen soldiers.
Where did the Greeks farm without having much land to farm in?
They farmed in narrow fertile plains that ran along the coast and between the mountains.
What did the descendants of those who ran from the Dorians bring back to the mainland?
(3)
They brought back new ideas, crafts, and skills.
What did the coins/system increase?
It increased a colony's wealth.
What did Greeks begin to think of themselves as?
They began to think of themsleves as small separate countries.
How did the Dorian invasion help spread Greek culture?
It helped spread their culture because when the Greeks fled the mainland they took their culture with them to the other islands.
Where were the new colonies founded and when?
They were founded along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea between 750 B.C. and 550 B.C..