Geography
The mainland of Greece is this type of landform?
What is a peninsula?
The island on which the Minoans built their society.
What is Crete?
The Greek word for city-state.
What is polis?
Type of government in which the people rule themselves.
What is a democracy?
True of False? All citizens could vote in the ancient Greek democracy.
What is false?
This sea is located south of Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The event that most likely led to the end of the Minoan civilization.
What is a volcanic eruption?
The feature around which most Greek city-states were built.
What is an acropolis (or fortress on top of a high hill)?
A government in which only a few people have power.
What is an oligarchy?
This crop was very important to the ancient Greeks, both for use and for trading.
What are olives?
A reason why the seas were important to early Greeks.
What are fishing, routes for trading, and safety from attacks?
The reason historians don't consider the Minoans to be Greek.
What is they did not speak the Greek language?
Life in the city often focused on the marketplace, or this name in Greece.
What is an agora?
Rich landowners who took power over the government in Ancient Greece.
Who are aristocrats?
The period after the Mycenaean civilization crumbled and Greece slid into a period of warfare and disorder.
What is the Dark Age?
This sea is located east of Greece.
What is the Aegean Sea?
The Mycenaeans were named after a large and powerful one of these which they had built on the mainland of Greece.
What is a fortress (called Mycenae)?
The Greeks created these in neighboring lands to help them become rich from trading.
What are colonies?
This type of democracy began in Athens.
What is a direct democracy?
The island on which the volcanic eruption that destroyed the Minoan civilization happened.
What is the ancient island of Thera (or Santorini today)?
The land feature that best describes the geography of Ancient Greece?
What is mountainous?
The Mycenaeans were known for this, something they did not always do peacefully.
What is trading?
The creation of city-states marked the beginning of this period in Greek history.
What is the classical age?
He encouraged people to participate in government and paid public officials.
Who is Pericles?
The leader who helped develop Greece's first democracy.